Long Duration X-Class Solar Flare And CME Inbound March 30th 2026!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Growing sunspot AR4405 that is now beta gamma erupted again late on March 30th, producing an X1.5 class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory captured the hours-long explosion. They're calling it an extremely long event. Extreme ultraviolet radiation from the flare ionized the air above Southeast Asia and Australia, causing a shortwave radio blackout in those locations. Ham radio operators may have noticed loss of signal at all frequencies below 30 MHz. Of greater interest, and we'll take a look at the CME on LASCO C3, there was a CME hurled from the long-term X-Flare. The explosion hurled a fast and massive coronal mass ejection into space, and it most probably has an Earth-directed component to it. Confirmation awaits fresh data from SOHO coronographs. Ladies and gentlemen, this looks like the perfect Artemis killer. In other words, no moon flight on the first. How convenient. All right, heading over to GOES-19 X-ray flux. It's like it was only in X-ray territory for about an hour. It's like it was in M-territory, well, I would say, for at least one, at least three to four hours there. So it was a fairly long-term eruption. The one we had the other day was seven hours long in M-territory. But again, this was an X-1.5 solar flare. and well that's significant and i said it did hurl a large cme which is clearly visible on LASCO C3 which we're about to take a look at no it did come out with a warning this looks like it peaked at 320 UTC time ladies and gentlemen that's why we were doing our live and that's gonna be this afternoon after three o'clock so although they say it occurred on the 29th here UTC wise it occurred on the 30th and you can see 318 is here the time that they're using i said 320 this is the very peak of the flare uh here we go march 30th 2026 created an r3 radio blackout which is a very strong radio blackout They are confirming it was from region for sunspot group AR4405 That is beta gamma currently It's like it wants to become even more complex, maybe a delta class sunspot soon Solar flares, an eruption of energy measured in X-ray flux, flares this magnitude in and around a solar maximum are generally not common, although not necessarily unusual. Solar flares of this magnitude can be impulsive, meaning quick to rise and decrease, although this one lasted for several hours They have a very large coronal mass ejection leaving our sun on Lasco C3 This must be just in time to kill the Artemis launch on April Fool's Day. They fooled you again, right? an x 1.5 they haven't assigned the sunspot region but we know it happened at about 319 utc time and it came from sunspot region 4405 most complex sunspot that we currently have we currently have a 10 percent chance of having an x class event that ship just sailed i will say we didn't have an m class event all day we have a 45 percent chance of having an m-class solar flare and a 99 percent chance of having a c-class solar flare running a healthy c baseline i would expect more flaring from this sunspot than from from the other sunspots as well throughout the day there's i believe nine sunspots that are earth facing currently all right taking a look at our star here goes solar ultra violet imagery 191 angstroms this is GOES 19 the latest and greatest here is our event here and you can see it pop off and i guess we have well i don't know what's eclipsing this instrument it could be the earth during this time of year because they put the new chronograph only 220 miles above Earth. On the old chronographs, we're at Lagrange point one, a million miles, or four times as far as the moon, i.e. they never got eclipsed. This one should be eclipsed every day, but they say it'll only happen during two periods for the year, which makes zero sense, by the way. This, of course, happens to be one of them, the equinoxes. Please draw that up for me. This one's on our GOES-19 satellite that's really a satellite that's put together to do weather forecasting on Earth, on Earth. But they put the chronograph on this one this time. We have a chronograph on SOHO and STEREO, and they're much more superior. Let's hope that we continue to have access to those. We also have a coronal hole that everyone can see here that will soon be Earth-facing. We're probably looking at at least 72-plus hours for those solar winds hit Earth. So there is a chance of a one-two combo, but it looks like the winds will be coming in a little bit later. They said that this was an extremely fast-moving coronal mass ejection. And when they state that, they're usually talking about 1,200 kilometers per second to maybe 1,400 kilometers per second. These winds are probably closer to 700 to 800 kilometers per second, and it's not a huge coronal hole. Over to HMI Intensigram, there's 4405 coronal holes right about here. Some of these sunspots look like they're trying to become more complex, I wouldn't pass this off as not becoming a Delta-class sunspot very soon. It will be facing Earth for at least the next seven to eight days. It takes about 12 days for a sunspot to transit the Earth-facing side of the sun. I want everyone to listen to me because we're all going to learn something here. A sunspot near the equator takes about 24.5 to 25 days to go all the way around our star. You would think it would be a shorter time if it was near one of the poles, North Pole or South Pole, although it's a longer time. If it's near the poles, it takes 30 to 35 days, and they say that's because it's made of plasma rather than solid matter. They're using an average rotation of about 27.28 days. again near the equator 24.5 to 25 days i usually say about 12 days for the full transit i.e earth facing all right over to our D region absorption prediction center trying to see how long this flare really lasts it is a long duration flare watch that time started at 21 something maybe week earlier still going hasn't maxed out it's still going and it only looks like it's four or five hours i.e in the M territory per hour goes 19 and there is the major part of the flare but it was hot before that hit for sure so the majority of the radiation hit australia and all of asia the philippines etc and this was an extremely long event uh it looks like it was it's still going uh i won't give you all the time period but much longer than i first said um gonna be probably about eight or nine hours uh we were feeling the radiation from that event all right LASCO C3 has released a picture of the coronal mass ejection and it should be a doozy and it should strike earth pretty square on based on what we're seeing here seeing some plasma over on the right side of here as well so it's definitely a halo event just not as strong on one side as the other definitely inbound and probably for the first which means it's going to be a rocket to the moon Canceler. April Fools again. Alright, take a look at SDO HMI Magnetogram. This is our friend here looking mighty angry. Although several sunspots here, they could produce at any moment. So keep an eye out. This was taken at well, just a few hours ago believe it or not. It was taken at 11:30. It is 2 a.m. Central here in the U.S. 11:30 just before midnight so it was taken about two and a half hours ago very up to date now they didn't get a good picture of SOHO for whatever reason unless they have since i've been there this is our SOHO 284 angstroms event the one that's usually yellow with really bright sunspot flares this is our sunspot group this is the coronal hole i don't know what this is here it's awful scary looking though and this hasn't been updated in some time it was updated yesterday around 6:06 yesterday morning so this is uh well nearly 24 hours about 20 hours old i don't know why they didn't update this really would have liked to see uh SOHO 284 angstroms that being said here is earth over here and i guess planets are just about everywhere we could argue that there's a lineup maybe more so tomorrow with saturn and neptune across the pond there uh i don't see any geomagnetic connections i.e. pink i will move the moon back there might see some more earthquake activity and solar activity over the next 48 hours based on that lineup right there that said god bless you guys that's going to be an artemis killer for sure i don't understand why because we could get a solar flare any of the days that this thing is headed up towards our moon and around our moon past our moon by over 25,000 miles and back home uh we could have a larger solar flare and well that would put them much more trouble than if they were to be in earth's atmosphere or even low earth orbit if they were to take off on the first but i have a feeling it's going to be an april fool's joke on you i.e we're going to have a solar storm or at least a geomagnetic storm that day and there won't be any anyone headed to the moon or anywhere around it with that said god bless please share and subscribe and make sure to check out my next video i'm going to drop it's about a comet that's going to be grazing our sun and be visible to the naked eye here over the next two weeks it's going to be some show in the heavens remember anything's possible in bizarro world