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2023-12-15 Science & Technology

Sun recorded its most powerful flare in six years

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[Regnum] The most powerful in recent times The flare was recorded on the Sun for six years. This was reported on December 14on the website of the Phobos weather center.

Think it’ll impact the weather?

It is specified that a flare with intensity X2.8 was recorded on the Sun at about 20:00 Moscow time. This is the most powerful flare since the beginning of the year; the previous record-breaking flare in intensity was registered on February 17, its intensity was X2.2 points.

As noted at the Phobos weather center, the last time a flare of such strength on the Sun was observed six years ago, in 2017.

It is noted that before the powerful flare, two more were recorded, of medium intensity - M5.8 at 10:44 Moscow time and M2.3 at 16:48 Moscow time.

Phobos center experts warned that active events on the Sun of this kind are usually harbingers of a magnetic storm, the closest of which is expected on Saturday, December 16.

Earlier IA Regnum reported that at the end of November due to a strong solar flare in Moscow an aurora was observedcaused by a strong magnetic storm.

On November 6, residents of some Russian regions saw an aurora of an unusual red color in the sky. The phenomenon was observed in the Donbass, Crimea, Rostov and Omsk regions.

Posted by badanov 2023-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [26 views ] Top

#1 I would slather in the SPF 75, but I live in Ohio and it is the season of the sticks.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-15 05:57|| 2023-12-15 05:57|| Front Page Top

#2
In tracking the 11-Year Solar Cycle (Holes, Flares and massive earthward ejections) issues.

The USA could be looking at a “Carrington Event” Mass Power Outage caused by a X-class Solar Event, like Canada had in March 1989.

The USA areas mostly likely to be effected.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-12-15 06:33|| 2023-12-15 06:33|| Front Page Top

#3 "Think it'll impact the weather?"

Better set up a new federal bureaucracy with billions in funding, just in case.

Posted by Tom 2023-12-15 10:53|| 2023-12-15 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Will it done anything to the supply of Sun Chips? My interest is peaked.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-15 11:23|| 2023-12-15 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Someone say ~~Winter~~ Weather?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-15 14:33|| 2023-12-15 14:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Be a shame if it hit Russia and China....or Europe. Just saying.

Posted by Silentbrick 2023-12-15 22:50|| 2023-12-15 22:50|| Front Page Top

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