Our Sun Just Got Angry!

James Kaufman, World News Report today. Ladies and gentlemen, today has been a blast, literally a blast. After weeks of no activity on our star, we've had five M-class solar flares, and a couple of pretty strong ones. There are most definitely, most definitely, coronal mass ejections inbound to hit Earth very shortly. what you're seeing here is a one-two punch sympathetic flare happening after another flare what you're seeing is a one-six the first one over here the one-six followed by a one-two and they happen just as quick as it looks like they did here i'll show them to you on goes and they did create a coronal mass ejection together that is inbound but these aren't even close to the strongest m-class flares that we saw today just the beginning this is ar419 and this is ar420 and both of them are delta class currently ready to x flare at any moment head over there goes x-ray flux we're taking a look at exactly what occurred and believe it or not this is what you saw on the chronograph just now that was the two M flares those were the M 1.6 and the M 1.2 followed right behind that now that was followed by an M 4.3 followed by an M 1.7 followed by an M 4.9 all of them basically coming from those two sunspots that are generally earth-facing especially 4220 that dumped most all of them on us, let's take a look all right, this is what we have guys those first two flares right here, one from 4419, the next one from 4420, sympathetic solar flare from 4420, you can see that both of them are red meaning they're both delta class, most complex sunspot we know you can see that 4420 turned from beta gamma to delta just today, 4419 has been delta class, then we move up with a big pop come from 4419, it is moving around towards the exiting limb here on M of 4.3, moving further up for 4419 again and M 1.7, you see all the activity coming from 4420, but the flares are not as large And then that final flare, the M 4419 So we'll see how much of that is inbound It'll probably take them some time to model that. That model is not finished yet. We do have some, well, we can see the CME ejection from the first two flares on LASCO And we really have a treat here. We can see the halo eruption from the first two M flares They weren't very strong, but are inbound towards Earth And then we have Penumbra 2025, R3, coming into the picture It will become more visible It's only half the distance to the sun. There's no chance of it burning up. It's going to fly right by between us and the sun over the next couple days. what an interesting situation, i'm not quite sure if this is going to be visible during the day they said it was going to be, i have to follow up on that but it's getting close enough to the sun it's going to brighten up quite a bit, headed over to go so ultraviolet imagery you can see that 4419 was much more earth-facing when it flared and it's becoming almost to the limb there you can see it continue to flare there and 4420 is this area here we have tons of sunspots coming around that look very active and we've got some coronal holes that are trying to form as well so we have all types of things going on on our star today and over to our D region absorption prediction center you can see those M-flares as they hit one after another you'll see quite few of those one or do we jump to option prediction I guess we only get to see the last two but now sure have more coming oh there we go stronger flare there we should have more coming I might have hit the wrong button let's see if we can catch those last couple here looks like we're gonna give them to us it doesn't look like it after all but we did get to see at least three M-flares pop off and i guess the big one was over the Atlantic second one was basically over the Atlantic and parts of south america and the big one as far as we're concerned was another M-flare over the Caribbean happened right there right over the u.s so we got to see four of the five flares there pretty impressive all right take a look at HMI intensigram there are two delta class sunspot groups here 4420 and 4419 4419 will probably be out of play by tomorrow but we do have some more activity coming around the limb here and we had a total of only four sunspots earth facing the other two are simple 4421 and 4422 all right 4419 4420 4420 is a reverse polarity or could be argued to be a reverse polarity sunspot with black over white in the northern hemisphere well this is clearly not reversed this one's been giving us the most trouble it was located right about here at the beginning of the day but so the earlier flares would will would be what we were worried about so most of the bigger flares occurred later in the evening we'll probably miss earth although the first two definitely created a chromospheric ejection i've already been modeled to hit earth and i will actually read NOAA's summary for you guys about the incoming CME when we took a look at so 284 angstroms probably the slide that allows us to see the most can see coming around the limb we've got some serious players and there are some holes trying to form here after weeks of quiet the sun awakened the action began today with a double M1 class solar flare it was a sympathetic flare caused by magnetic teleconnections between the two widely spaced sunspots 4419 and 4420. these sunspots have since produced additional M-class flares including an M4 and M5 solar flare the double flare launched a coronal mass ejection into space. So, chronographs saw that and more. Comet Panstar C2025R3 has also entered LASCO-C3's field of view. The comet will be visible to SOHO for the next few days as it passes almost directly between Earth and the Sun. It could be a good show and will update our movie frequently. Meanwhile, Coronal Mass Ejection shown above is not squarely aimed at Earth, but it seems to be Earth-directed. A NASA model suggests it will deliver a glancing blow on April 26. This could spark a G1 to G2 class geomagnetic storm with auroras at high altitudes. with that said god bless you guys on the 26th we could have a little geomagnetic storm i think those big infernos might have missed us and we've got some real trouble coming around the limb as we speak