Two M-Class Solar Flares Pop Off June 20th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had a couple of decent-sized solar flares pop off from our sun, but here on Earth, all is calm. Looking at our KP indexes, an indication of plasma and solar winds striking Earth. They're located in different parts of America, and we can see that none of them are registering any type of disturbance except for the college index. that did register three hours of disturbance about six hours ago. So we're having a very calm day with no solar winds and no plasma, and we've had a very calm few days, actually. However, around 2 UTC time, which would have been about 9 o'clock last night, We did have an M1.33 pop-off, one of the newly named sunspots that has come around the limb. And more recently in the last few hours, at 3 p.m. Central time here, we've had an M1.07 pop-off. So we do have those to look at. That was 9 p.m. last night Central and 3 p.m. Central, the second M flare. All right, taking a look at the events of the day, we really only have two sunspot groups that have had any activity whatsoever. That's 4472, where both M flares did come from, and 4470. Now, here we are, peaking at about 151. We said 2. That's a 1.33 solar flare. You see it up there. And that was generated by AR4472, a sunspot group. There are other sunspot groups coming around behind it that look, well, very complex as well. Now, they haven't yet registered the second M-Flare. It's going to be an M1.07. It was also generated by AR4472. too and i'll be able to show you that directly from SOHO's ultraviolet viewer at 195 angstroms we're currently at a B 4.87 baseline wow not very active although it does look like it's going to become active we had a one percent chance of having an X-class solar flare today only a 20 chance of an M class solar flare today and we've had two they haven't been very strong ones but we have had two, and only an 80% chance of having a C-class, a C-class flare. Look at them registering these B, B flares, a B7.4, a B8.7, a B7, a B7.5, never seen it. All right, over to HMI intensitygram, taking a look at, well, what we have here. We've got AR4472 right here. It's generated both the M flares you can see there's another sunspot group coming around right behind it this has probably moved into well a position closer to here as you will soon see we have AR4470 it's been shooting some very small flares but still active and we have two other sunspots one going around the limb AR4469 and AR4471 that's very quiet and well basically earth facing along with AR4470 oh now since we know the times that these occurred we can kind of cheat here and you can see on the left side this area here you can see right there hey there we go there it went looks like there was a small coronal mass ejection you can see that filament bust out and then we can cheat a little bit more and get up to 1500 and watch it blow again there see the explosion so those are both the M-flares that we've had today that's how we know where the second one came from we know the timing on it and now we can visually spot it on 4472 no coronal mass ejections were visible on LASCO I saw these funky lines and there's one more well there is coronal mass ejection but it's backside and headed north saw these funky lines and one more right here i'd like to show you i'm assuming that these are just space rocks flying by into it and there You're going to want that CME on the back side and nothing else to see on LASCO C3. All right, neither of today's M-flares should harm Mother Earth in any way. I wouldn't even expect a geomagnetic storm, even a G1 out of either. Although we did get, well, some radiation and X-rays from that last 1.07, And I'm sure we did, again, I'm using the time, 1503 or 303 central time. I'm sure we also got them from the earlier explosion that was larger, but that's not going to be available on our D region absorption prediction. But we know exactly what time to go to, and we can see the M1.07 right there, mainly over the Atlantic northern South America and the Caribbean all right currently we have plasma at 3.6 centimeters cubed very light plasma solar winds are at 371 kilometers per second very light on both this is SDO HMI magnetogram and this is 4472 this sunspot here well it looks like it could be dangerous but it has not been named yet but will be named by morning time this is 4470 the only other sunspot that's been giving us any trouble whatsoever ever this is STO HMI magnetogram. And finally, a look at SOHO at 284 angstroms. All the coronal holes are gone and they were very small. And, well, this is 4470. You can see it's lit up here. This is a departing sun's limb, but there would be a chance that if it exploded in a large manner, it could be geo-effective towards Earth because that's where our geomagnetic connection is to the outgoing limb and this was taken earlier, taken this morning at 10.06 Central Time. You can see that AR-4472 has moved considerably in that short amount of time. So, there we go, folks. Nothing to worry about, but I want to report those flares to y'all. Please share and give us a thumbs up, and always remember, anything's possible in the Bizarro World.