Powerful solar flare from recent sun eruption should reach Earth Wednesday

[turbinetree]

By Chelsea Gohd published about 7 hours ago



A CME erupted on Jan. 30, 2022 and is set to arrive at Earth on Feb. 2, 2022. (Image credit: SOHO)
A powerful solar flare has been traveling through space and it will arrive at planet Earth Wednesday (Feb. 2).

In the early hours of Saturday morning (Jan. 30), a coronal mass ejection, a powerful explosion near the sun's surface, erupted into space following an M1-class solar flare. M-class solar flares are medium-sized space weather events that can cause temporary radio blackouts on Earth, according to the European Space Agency.

The burst, which came from a sunspot called AR2936, was especially long-lasting, enduring for more than four hours, astronomer Tony Phillips reported at Spaceweather.com.

https://www.space.com/sunspot-ar2936-solar-flare-cme-arrival-earth

Ever wonder why you get what you get on this planet,,,,,for weather

[Liberty Belle]

1. On Groundhog Day...but how will it affect Punxsutawney Phil?

[Nevilledog]

3. NJ's groundhog died today. 2022 is gonna last forever.

[Demovictory9]

4. So sad

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Altered brain structure. Turned vicious. Ate both his handlers.

And tomorrow, he'll do it again.

[wackadoo wabbit]

2. One of these days we're going to get another Carrington Event, . . .

and that will change life as we know it.

[roamer65]

7. Yes it will.

We just missed one in 2012.

If we get one like 1859, we are toast.

[captain queeg]

8. Yes that would be bad news for the electrical grid

And stuff like that happens regularly in geological time. Every couple hundred years. The outages could be long term and who knows what all would be affected.

[PufPuf23]

9. Did not know about the Carrington Event. This could be serious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Wonder if there is a connection with this?


Lightning bolt stretching 477 miles over 3 U.S. states sets world record: "Absolutely extraordinary"

A bolt of lightning that stretched nearly 500 miles across three U.S. states is the new world record holder for longest flash.

The single flash extended 477.2 miles across Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi in April 2020, the World Meteorological Organization said Monday. That beat the old record set in 2018 in Brazil of 440.6 miles.

more and video at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lightning-477-miles-3-us-states-world-record/

[Frasier Balzov]

6. Will it melt all this horrible snow?

No?

Dammit.