The Solar Tally So Far....

EarthSky

At this time of writing, we've had 25 X-class Solar Flares since this phenomenal year of 2024 commenced. Out of those 25, eighteen of them occurred during the month of May alone, and we still have 12 more days before the month ends.

Guess how many X-class flares we had in the entire year of 2023?

12!

Here's a list of those 25, thanks to SpaceWeatherLive, please visit the page to view the entire chart (Top 50 Solar Flares), which includes the highest 25 M-class flares as well:

This list also tells us that there have been 7 M9-class flares so far. 

For anyone interested, here's the page for 2023's top 50 flares.

After that almost 40-hours of geomagnetic storming from 10-12 May, we've had a couple more periods of storms ~ however, these were fairly brief and not as strong.

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

EarthSky has a video of this incredible filament that erupted out of our Sun's southern hemisphere today, and its resulting CME ~ screenshot at the top of this post.

That minuscule dot represents the size of Earth....

Namarie! 💟

We Have No.13! (And It's Still Storming....)

SpaceWeather

 

One more X-class flare sparked off since my posting yesterday, bringing the tally to 13 so far for this Solar-active month of May:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

We haven't stopped storming since Friday 10 May:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

And look at that amazing clip of those particles being funnelled to Earth (top of post)! This is what SpaceWeather says:

The snowy speckles in this SOHO coronagraph movie are caused by energetic particles hitting the spacecraft's camera. The particles are being accelerated toward the spacecraft (and toward Earth) by shock waves in the emerging CME. They are a sign that it is a potent storm cloud with an Earth-directed component.

That's why I specifically used the word "funnelled". Yep, Earth Mum is the focus of some serious energies right now 😇 I know SpaceWeather calls them "energetic particles" but to me they are COSMIC PLASMA. Lots and lots and lots of it.

If we thought the 900 km/s radial velocity was high for 11 May, we are now seeing that the expected reading for 13 May is 1200 km/s!

SpaceWeatherLive

Aurora Borealis displays are covering huge swathes of our beautiful Planet:

Space Weather Gallery

You can view dozens of these spectacular displays here.

Hope everyone is faring OK. I know it sounds like a paradox but even while some of us are being floored by these immense energies, it's still such a good time to hand-hold each other (energetically) as well as to do our Lightwork.

From what I can gather, this isn't over yet! 😅

Namarie! 💜

Still On-Going....

SpaceWeather

Another X-class flare! That's no.12 for this month, registering at X5.8:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

 

Are we storming, too? ABSOLUTELY!!! And they are off the charts at G5:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

Please head over to SpaceWeather for more details. 

I'm beginning to understand why I got that "multiplication effect" message yesterday 😄

My PC refused to turn on this morning, no matter what I did. So I left it and after several minutes, it turned on by itself. I guess it decided to go through a little reboot of its own. Ditto my phone, it was terribly glitchy. 

I will try to post more resources but not right now. I went to bed last night with a dull pain in my head, woke up this morning with more pain, and just felt several stabs a couple of hours ago. My head feels like it's having its own solar flaring and geomagnetic storming party going on 😅  I have to go lie down....

Namarie! 🩵

X-Flaring!

SpaceWeather

Since 3 May when I posted about the X1.6-class flare, we've had 5 more X-class flares! All these came from Sunspot AR3664 (image above) and SpaceWeather expects more to emerge (here for more details).

This is the X4.5-class flare on 6 May:

SpaceWeather

 

....producing a radio blackout in the following areas, with many countries being affected again as they were on 3 May :

SpaceWeather

 

 

Solar Activity & Cosmic Payload

SpaceWeather

It's been a week of high-octane Solar activity all-round. And a Cosmic payload that had some serious stuff for this part of Space! This is related to what I described in my earlier post (here) about the locked-on grid. Details are still fuzzy and I don't have any further understanding or clarity about this yet, apart from what I had already written. But I'm pretty sure many felt this recent Cosmic payload ~ I'm assuming most of the following charts I'm posting here have some correlation to this.

On 3 May 02:22 UTC, we had a Solar Flare charting at X1-6 (main image above and image below):

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

.....producing a radio blackout in the following areas:

SpaceWeather

A few days prior to this, we had an M9.5-class flare (30 April 23:45 UTC)....

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

 

....followed by this giganormous CME on 1 May, which clocked a max speed of 7,257,600 km/hr:

SpaceWeatherLive

....and we had a geomagnetic storm:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

The magnetosphere is currently showing the highest density reading:

Space Weather Prediction Centre

 

SR is showing a lot of activity as well in the past week, with the latest readings looking like this:

Space Observing System

 Namarie! 🩵

XXX

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

Not one, not two, but THREE X-Class Flares within one 24-hour span! The last one registered X6.3, the strongest since September 2017. This makes it a total of FIVE X-Class Flares in February alone, all within a fortnight.

The Sun Today has a video of the first two flares, with the following screenshot taken from the clip:

The Sun Today

And this is the X6.3:

More details on EarthSky. All three recent X-flares came from the same region AR3590; radio blackout in the regions shown below:

Speculation was rife that the triple X-Flares caused the nation-wide AT&T outage, but the video in EarthSky explained that this wasn't the case.

Also explained here:

Space Weather Prediction Centre

Another X-Class Flare

LosyZiemi.pl

First things first ~ apologies for the confusion when I wrote "January" instead of "February" in the Solar Activity post (here) ~ I have corrected the errors accordingly. I seriously don't know where I am sometimes 😄 Back to the present....

 

We had another X-class flare at 06:53 UTC today! It's the 3rd this year (in my timezone, else it's two in Western regions) and this one registered at X-2.5 (video here). 

Chart showing the X-flare reading, with 20 flares registered yesterday:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

Look at that eruption:

Watchers

We had a radio blackout in these regions:

There's definitely an amplified restlessness, paradoxically coupled withe the feeling that the brain has turned to mush. (Coming up with this post was quite a feat for me.)

I'm also adding the SR chart, to complete the picture:

Space Observing System

Namarie! 💛

Flares & CMEs

Scientific Visualization Studio

Still in catch-up mode, apologies! It's been weird and wonderful and wonky all at once. It feels like there's lots of things to cover so I'll start with SR charts first.

Space Observing System

I had mentioned (here) that the charts have been exhibiting "busyness" and peculiar readings since I first noticed them around 19 January. This "busyness" has continued right until recent days (charts above). Huge readings yesterday 10 February when I saw the chart, but did not download it as I had intended to do so today (11 February). Well, unfortunately the site is inaccessible so I will upload it when it is available.

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

Just a minor geomagnetic disturbance earlier today, but take a look at Solar Flaring!

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

X3.3-flare on 9 February (top image) with this video showing spectacular footage of the flaring:

VideoFromSpace

 

More images:

Scientific Visualization Studio

 

From SpaceWeather:

Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere. This, in turn, caused a strong shortwave radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean. Mariners and ham radio operators may have noticed loss of signal at frequencies below 30 MHz for as much as an hour after the flare's peak.

Of greater interest is the coronal mass ejection (CME). New images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory show an assymetric halo CME with an Earth-directed component. A preliminary NASA model predicts it will reach Earth on Feb. 13th:

Look at that massive wave in the above simulation!

Let's go back to Solar Flaring. Before we had that X3-3, our Sun had been putting on a massive Light display with several C- and M-class flares:

3 February: 15 C-class flares

4 February: 12 C-class, 7 M-class

5 February: 11 C-class, 2 M-class

6 February: 5 C-class, 3 M-class

7 February: 6 C-class, 2 M-class

8 February: 10 C-class, 5 M-class

9 February: 8 C-class, 2 M-class, 1 X-class

10 February: 12 C-class, 3 M-class, one of which was M9.0

More details at Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun.

And to round up this post, here's the CME that just erupted today, travelling at a max speed of 1951 km/sec (7,023,600 km/hr) :

SpaceWeatherLive

Phew....😅  

And Namarie! 😄💛

Solar Activity & SR

SpaceWeatherLive

Energetically-speaking, the final few days of 2023 and these first 2 days of 2024 have been immense and intense. I think this is quite a good indicator of how the year will play out ~ so many different dynamics all operating simultaneously as our beautiful Planet continues ever-Godward along her Ascension Journey under the watchful purview of the Cosmos.

The SR in the past few days have been registering high readings alongside those thin stripey things again:

Space Observing System

Aaaaand...... an X5-flare erupted on 31 December 2023 at 22:05 UT (that would already be 1 January 2024 in many countries), spewing out what must be tons of Cosmic Plasma that would affect every single sub-atomic particle in the Solar System. Reports state that it's the strongest flare since September 2017.

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

 

SpaceWeatherLive

SpaceWeather.com

Japan was sadly hit by a 7.6-magnitude earthquake on 1 January 2024 ~ this could be related to the X5-flare ("Science" does not openly/officially recognise the correlation between the two).

Solar wind forecast post-flare looks like this:

SpaceWeatherLive

 

High density and pressure as well:

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/geospace-magnetosphere-movies