James Kaufman reports on recent solar activity as of April 21, 2025, highlighting a direct Earth-facing M1.99 solar flare from sunspot 4062. The report details an ongoing G1 geomagnetic storm driven by a massive coronal hole, with solar wind speeds peaking around 741 km/s and potential for continued instability over the following days.
James Kaufman, World News Report today, April 21st, 2025.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we've just had an M1.99 solar flare.
It was directly Earth-facing.
We'll go over where that originated from.
This is the last or first activity we've seen since our 4.47.
At the beginning of April 19th
and end of April 18th it was not earth-facing. This flare on the
other hand is directly earth-facing.
Today we've also seen nine hours of a G1 geomagnetic storm here
and we're looking for maybe a stronger storm
but definitely a longer storm going into tomorrow
and that would be the shortest. It could go into the following day.
This of course is being caused by the huge coronal opening
or coronal hole that's earth facing.
We knew and predicted this would occur
and we pretty much nailed it down to the hour. So very
little activity happening on our star considering they tell us it's
the solar maximum. We have the
The M4.47.
About 72 hours ago,
and we've just had the M1.99 out of sunspot 4062.
We'll take a look at that.
Two C-class flares that are basically insignificant.
We're barely holding on to our C-baseline flare.
We have a 1% chance of having an X-class solar flare,
a 40% chance of having an M-class solar flare,
although that ship has now sailed.
And of course, we are running a C-baseline and have been.
And we almost lost our C-baseline yesterday
for the first time in quite some time.
All right, currently we have what looks like
eight simple sunspots, all earth-facing.
A few others should be being named shortly.
4062 is right here.
Looks like it's becoming more complex and it's directly earth-facing.
It just generated the M1.99 solar flare.
That should be a direct hit if a coronal mass ejection was created.
Heading over to our Discover satellite,
To take a look at that solar wind.
You can see it go from 400 just
this morning all the way up to over 700.
We guessed around 700, so we nailed that.
There's a 719.
It looks like there might be some higher readings as well.
A 735, and see if I can get it in there, a 741.
So these solar winds are still very strong.
Temperature's been elevated all day long.
Strangely, we had plasma come in.
Looks like it was pushed in prior to the
Solar wind, or by the solar wind here,
plasma went up to over 27, 28 centimeters cubed,
30 centimeters cubed in here, and it's been dissipating all day.
We're very, very low now, but we really should have seen
a geomagnetic storm at the end of last night.
Based on the plasma levels here, which again,
I don't know where this plasma came from,
but it was probably pushed at Earth per the solar winds here.
It's not going to take much to really impact Earth
because our shields are completely down, as you can see here.
And here's that huge coronal hole that we've been talking about.
It looks like at least a three day or to me.
It is currently pouring solar winds.
We saw them up to about 750 kilometers per second at Earth.
We've got some very nasty sunspots coming around the limb.
Here is AR4062 that actually produced that M flare
and 4066 that did produce a C solar flare today.
Over to our D region absorption prediction center.
This is the radiation nailing Earth.
It's our X-ray background radiation,
and when we see those solar flares, obviously it increases quite a bit.
That was the M1.99 solar flare, and of course it occurred right over
the United States and Central America.
With that said, guys, we're in a geomagnetic storm,
and we had a fairly strong Earth-facing solar flare.
I will keep you updated as things develop.
And let you know if a coronal mass ejection is inbound.
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