Experts thought that the geomagnetic storm of October 1st and with effects today, Friday October 4th, would be the strongest of this period but the Sun surprised everyone with another blasting occurred even more strongly in the last few hours and with effects especially on the night of Sunday 6 October when theNorthern Lightsa very rare phenomenon in our latitudes.
The very powerful flare
They were the scientists of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center to break the news on social media and on the official web account: for this reason warnings were issued “of G3 (strong) geomagnetic storm for the period from 4 to 6 October due to a pair of coronal mass ejections expected to arrive over the next three days“. In detail, if yesterday we talked about a solar eruption with a value of X 9.1basically the strongest of the solar cycle. For those who don’t know, flares caused by X-rays have a scale with the letters of the alphabet A, B, C, M and X with the latter being the strongest of all. The numbers then indicate the further degree of intensity.
What happened
Once again, after a few hours, a very strong event occurred on the surface of the Sun coronal mass ejection: as we have seen it is a “Giant solar plasma cloud laced with magnetic field lines, swept away from the Sun often during filament eruptions and flares
strong and long-lasting sunscreens”, explain the experts. As the Sun’s activity increases towards solar maximum, coronal mass ejections become more common and we can see several per day.”.
The direct consequences
Still early days following the X9 solar flare from sunspot region 3842 which is the strongest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25 thus far but we do have some preliminary SOHO/LASCO coronagraph imagery from SEEDs right now. We see the beginning of a very nice halo coronal mass ejection… pic.twitter.com/tJsr6Tk6es
— SpaceWeatherLive (@_SpaceWeather_) October 3, 2024