Solar maximum is here! G2 storm watch and X-flare!

Thursday, 8 August 2024 20:16 UTC

With all of these sunspots, there are also some very complex sunspot regions on the disk and they have been producing M-class and even X-class solar flares left right and center. Sunspot region 3777 actually produced a X1.3 that peaked just moments ago at 19:35 UTC! It is still too early to tell if this solar flare produced a coronal mass ejection but there have been two M-class events earlier this week which launched coronal mass ejections with an earth-directed component. The first of these coronal mass ejections is expected to arrive tomorrow thus with two coronal mass ejections incoming, storm conditions up to the moderate G2 geomagnetic storm threshold which equals a Kp of 6 are possible on Friday, 9 August as well as during the weekend on 10 and 11 August.