Anniversary: May 2024 Storms & X-Flares

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One year ago the world was treated to stunning displays of Aurora Borealis when we had massive geomagnetic storms, to the extent that they even appeared in locations not normally associated with these gorgeous Sky Paintings. As SpaceWeather reports, they appeared on all seven continents:

ONE YEAR AGO--AN HISTORIC GEOMAGNETIC STORM: Do you remember where you were one year ago today? Wherever it was, there were probably auroras overhead. On May 10-11, 2024, an extreme geomagnetic storm sparked auroras over all seven continents and almost every country on Earth. Sightings in the South Pacific and Africa confirm the event was a true Great Storm.

And SpaceWeatherLive reminds us of the intensity of those storms:

The Kp-index reached Kp9 which equals the rare and elusive Extreme G5 geomagnetic storm threshold.

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And here's something I recently learnt:

E'Asha Ashayana KDDL3

Just a few days before those storms, Planetary activations appropriately called Aurora Flame-1 were running, from 8 - 10 May 2024. 

I would also need to mention that May 2024 charted a mind-boggling tally of 22 X-class flares! (Details here.)

 

 

Coming back to the current time. It would seem that there's been very little Solar activity in past weeks, with the absence of any major flares or intense storms. Not quite so ~ our Sun has indeed been busy delivering frequencies but the focus has been on other Planets and not Earth. Looks like we received our fair share in 2024 so it's the turn of other Ascending Planets in our Solar System. An example of a humongous CME on 12 May 2025, not facing Earth:

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....and today:

Gregorio M Vigilante del Sol

Please visit Gregorio's site for the full video.

Namarie! 🤍