Solar Uptick! Four M-Class Solar Flares & A Coronal Mass Ejection June 2nd 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today. As far today, we've had three M flares, a little out of the ordinary, at least based on the last few weeks. The biggest being directly Earth-facing, an M3.3, we call it a minor flare event that peaked at 1650 UTC time. It did cause an R1 radio blackout. Not a significant radio blackout, but notable. This was actually a sympathetic dual flare. They say R1 radio blackout conditions occurred on June 2nd due to an isolated M-class solar flare from region 4461, which is really here, on the southeast limb, and 4455 near the center disk, which is circled there. The largest of these events was an M3.3 solar flare from AR-4455 on the middle directly earth-facing, which peaked at 1650 UTC time. A large eruption originated from just beyond the eastern limb and occurred in tandem, making it unclear if this particular event resulted in an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, in other words, sympathetic eruptions. Any available supplementary chronograph imagery will be assessed in the coming hours to make a final determination. A high chance for additional M-class flares does exist and is expected to persist to June 4th. Updates and future details can be found at Forecast Discussion Product, which is updated twice a day at 30 UTC and 1230 UTC. That is a new tool that is being used. So we really had four M-flares today. The first one came from 4461, which is on the limb, coming around, just named. This M-flare here, these are both 1.2s, very weak M-flares. Second one came from AR4455, and then this actually was the 3.3 that came from AR4455 directly earth facing but they said that there was a simultaneous M-flare that came out of the region coming around the limb AR4461 when this 3.3 M class solar flare occurred my guess would there will be a directed coronal mass ejection based on LASCO and i will show you that chronograph Alright, taking a look at all of today's activities at M3.33 was the biggest flare we've seen in quite some time. 72 hours, yes. Probably two weeks. And we started the day off peaking at 445 UTC time with an M1.2 around the limb 4461 there. That was followed up by a directly earth-facing M1.2 at 10.05 UTC time, which was followed up by this M3.3, and they did say that there was a sympathetic flare out of 4461 at the exact same time. That peaked around 16.50. Currently, a 10% chance of an X-class solar flare, a 50% chance of an M-class flare, and a 95% chance of a C flare although we seem to be running a C baseline sure should be 99 i believe but we'll go with it we'll go with it i believe that there could be another M flare by the day's end that 50 looks a little low as well right over to HMI intensigram we've got a lot of sunspots that are earth facing at least we did we have a few going around the limb over here it looks like all together we have 10 earth-facing sunspots we're having trouble out of 4455 and so for 4461 no trouble out of any of the others thus far all of these are simple sunspots no beta gamma and no delta sunspots thus far although it looks like 4455 will soon morph into a more complex sunspot And headed over to LASCO C3, right after that 1600 hour, 1645, we do see a Coronal Mass Ejection coming from our star. There's a chance that could be backside, but I'm guessing that is the explosion that should have an Earth component to it. Although it did go to the left considerably, being directly Earth-facing, it should have an Earth component to it. And over it goes 19 solar ultraviolet, 195 angstroms. You can see those flares pop off at the same time. And really, well, that looks like it's more of the northern hemisphere up there. They're saying it came from 4461. You can see those pop off at the same time for sure, but that wouldn't be 4461. 4461 is in the southern hemisphere. there there we go see that big filament coming out of four four six one leaving the surface and just definitely definitely and we're popping right in the middle at four four five five this is an event that just must have occurred here this event here just must have occurred it must not be but the very end of the line here is almost up to date it's it's only one or two minutes behind must be another flare that occurred here we'll check it out before we leave all right take a look at the time here comes that big flare at 16 45 right about now right over North America Caribbean and northern part of South America take another look at that oh it's considerable well it's a direct hit did everybody feel it no we did see some activity after that let's see if we see it here on our D region absorption prediction center shows you the normal x-ray background versus the x-rays hitting when the flares hit and i well there it was right there it has not showed up yet on for some reason GOES x-ray flux we will take a quick look it's definitely just occurred and we did in fact see it on our GOES solar ultraviolet imager now we've seen it again that's the 1645 now we've seen it again on our d region absorption prediction center here so there was in fact a maybe fifth m class solar flare we'll take a look at it right here unless it was a strong c class flare which i doubt interesting and they have mapped it looks like as a c5 so not a huge deal but it is there we did see it on both of our other models it just looked a little bit stronger than it does here on our GOES X-ray flux that said there you go guys four total M class solar flares today the largest being an M3.3 definitely a CME mass ejection inbound you should see that in about 48 hours and we will wait on that and please give us a thumbs up please share and always remember anything's possible bizarro world