Long Term Large Earth Directed Solar Flare & Coronal Mass Ejection May 16th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report today. Well, ladies and gentlemen, after almost two days of a geomagnetic storm, we're finally getting out of that storm, only to be hit by a large explosion directly earth-facing with associated coronal mass ejection. Wow. Busy, busy, busy. We did get to a G2 geomagnetic storm for this three-hour period from 4 to 7 yesterday evening. And actually, the K-index has us going up to a G3 geomagnetic storm at some point today. We're going to use our estimated planetary index, and we're going to find out that there are 21 hours of a geomagnetic storm, another nine hours of a geomagnetic disturbance. Wow. Over to GOES X-ray flux. you see we had a double in it directly earth facing someone called it a triple with a little edge there all from the same sunspot directly earth facing as i will show you in just a moment this is the most activity we've had since we had the sun the same sunspot explode while most of the limb was still covering it over to spaceweatherlive.com you can see that 44 35 and 36 are responsible for all the activity from the earth facing the side of our sun and we have these three M-flares here 1.9 to 1.3 and 1.9 1.96 is the largest we've seen in over 72 hours And, well, we currently only have a 5% chance of seeing an X-class flare, only a 40% chance of an M-class flare that should have sailed, and we're currently running at a C-baseline, a C1.22, low, but a C-baseline. So here are the flares of interest here from 1550, 1740 to almost two solid hours of plasma relief, i.e. a long-term, well, we'll see it right now. Real quickly, HMI Intensigram, I wanted to point out that there were a total of six Earth-facing sunspots, and it looks like two of them are about to go around the far limb. These two look very active coming around the limb here, and our culprit, again, is 4436, a simple sunspot that just actually exploded for two hours. over it goes 19 solar ultraviolet imager 195 angstroms you can see these sunspots coming around look awful awful dangerous and this is going to be our culprit right here i'm going to show you all the event it was a longer term event okay several times and there it goes trying to watch the northern part just disappear that went off into space i would imagine that this most definitely has an earth component to it a very long-term event actually this doesn't go long enough to show the entire event i can see there's no doubt the 4436 is the culprit here i thought it might be coming from one of those new sunspots coming around the limb but i found out i was wrong pretty sure most of y'all saw the event and all the different parts of it how it worked those goes 19 it's a little ultraviolet imager 195 angstroms all right we'll line up the times and we'll get to see the x-rays nail earth which tells me there's going to be another component to that large coronal mass ejection probably the first of the two inflers there mostly over northern south america and the atlantic where we have a hole in the atmosphere right this is definitely going to be one of the blurs here and this is over all the caribbean most of north america and south america and this is fairly long-lasting as you can see and there is the third m-class solar flare that's mainly over north america and central america and parts of the atlantic and pacific for that matter and that's going to be all she wrote as far as the m-class solar flares wow over to discover a real-time solar wind satellite remember orbiting at one million miles above earth at lagrange point one directly in between earth and our sun we see that we've had no plasma so that was a glancing blow that is for about two or three hours yesterday from that uh event that mostly happened around the limb as it was coming around the limb no plasma whatsoever here our shields are actually tilted north which is great and we're up and down as far as our atmosphere here it's staying fairly strong stronger now then well yes sir any other time you can see that we actually had some solar winds today reach 800 kilometers per second another group here 811 kilometers per second and there was a few more bumps in the road but 734 kilometers per second. And then we actually got out of the geomagnetic storm right around this time period here. Amazingly, temperatures stayed fairly normal all day long. Slightly, slightly elevated here, but very slightly compared to, well, having 800 kilometers per second winds and 811 kilometers per second winds here. Temperatures. Stay normal and continue that way. Let's take a look at ACE just for comparisons. Okay, ACE is, well, our first real-time space weather solar wind plasma satellite. Also, orbiting at 1 million miles at the Lagrange point 1, Discovery is its replacement, although it seems to work fine. Here we see no plasma over 10 centimeters cubed all day long? The plasma is just baselining here. You see the shields are tilted up, up high here, and we see that it's trying to really hold the atmosphere together too, even with these stronger winds, arguably. Now here we saw the 800, here we saw the 811. This is coming out to be just perfect here. Here we see the winds were abnormally strong during the 800 kilometers per second and during the 811 kilometers per second, and they are still above average, and winds are down to, I believe, in the 6s somewhere currently. So we are out of the storm, and we have nothing to worry about for around, I'm going to guess, 40 hours. Looks like a pretty big event. About 40 hours from now, we should expect a CME ejection. but we'll see what they have to say once they get it modeled please make sure to share and give us a thumbs up thumbs ups are super important and please subscribe if you haven't remember anything's possible in the bizarro world god bless you all