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This is like a PSA/reminder post about the super-behemoth Sunspots situation, of which most of you would already be aware. An excerpt from SpaceWeather, please the full article at their site:
The image shows Carrington's drawing of the 1859 sunspot inserted to scale on a Dec. 2, 2025, image of sunspot complex 4294-4296. They're about the same size. The surface area of Carrington's sunspot was ~2300 millionths of the solar disk. The surface area of 4294-4296 is 2080 millionths, about 90% as large.
This Sunspot complex is already Earth-facing.
In today's "technological" climate, an extreme Solar flare would render most infrastructure useless. Shops may not be able to open for business temporarily as most things would be offline.
It would be prudent and practical to have essential supplies in stock in case such an event occurs. So far that Sunspot complex has been relatively quiet.
As I'm writing this, I'm thinking if the "shield" that I mentioned here is related to the potential extreme Solar conditions:
Namarie! 💗
