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Strong M-flares, Filament eruption with CME

Welcome to July! A month where both our American and French friends celebrate very important holidays with lots of celebrations and fireworks! Our Sun thought it would be a good idea to join in on the celebrations as we have a new sunspot region (AR3372) announcing its presence near the north-east limb with regular M-class solar fireworks, some of these flare have even exceeded the M5 (R2-moderate) threshold like the M6,8 solar flare that took place today and peaked at 08;55 UTC.

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G1 - Minor geomagnetic storm

Observed Kp: 5
Threshold reached: 20:04 UTC

Current data suggests there is a slight possibility for aurora to appear at the following high latitude regions in the near future

Oulu, Rovaniemi, Sodankylä, Utsjoki
Kirkenes, Tromsø
Murmansk, Norilsk, Vorkuta
Kiruna, Luleå
The solar wind speed is currently moderately high (608.6 km/sec.)
The strength of the interplanetary magnetic field is moderate (16.29nT), the direction is North (6.54nT).
The Disturbance Storm Time index predicts moderate storm conditions right now (-75nT)
The maximum X-ray flux of the past two hours is:
C7.01

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