Category Archives: Space Weather

AR1520 X1.4 Class Flare 7/12/12. CME to Hit Earth July 14th around 09:17z

  Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have revised their forecast for CME from AR1520 X-flare the cloud’s expected arrival time to 09:17 UT (5:17 am EDT) on Saturday,…

Solar Flare, Xray blast and CME from Sunspot AR1515

July 8, 2012: Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from  07/2100Z to 08/2100Z show  Solar activity was high. Region AR1515 produced an M6/1n at 08/1632Z .  An associated CME…

A Good Reason to Wake Up at Dawn

Summer is a good time to relax, sleep late, enjoy a break from school or work. Waking before sunrise is just not done. This summer is a little different. To…

M2-class flare causes R1 radio blackouts

Sunspot AR 1513 hit Earth’s atmosphere with a pulse of X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation. The flare also has a coronal hole associated with it. This makes for an interesting…

Double CME headed to Earth from sunspot AR1504

Update 6/15/12 – A beta-gamma-delta field in AR1504 has developed. This could store energy for strong solar flares. NOAA  estimates a 65% chance of M-flares and a 5% chance of…

Video of Tornados on the Sun..too cool to miss

Recent Video from SDO will make earthbound tornado chasers envious. SDO recently captured some astounding videos of tornados on the surface of the sun.  These are caused by the plasma…

SDO sees solar breakaway prominence end

Source – NASA – A long, solar prominence that rotated into view almost two weeks ago finally became disorganized and broke away into space forming a nifty large loop as…