Sun Unleashes Monster Solar Flare, Strongest in a Decade, No "global warming" tho...

[Al Gore Lies]

Early this morning (Sept. 6), the sun released two powerful
solar flares — the second was the most powerful in more than a
decade.

At 5:10 a.m. EDT (0910 GMT), an X-class solar flare — the most
powerful sun-storm category — blasted from a large sunspot on
the sun's surface. That flare was the strongest since 2015, at
X2.2, but it was dwarfed just 3 hours later, at 8:02 a.m. EDT
(1202 GMT), by an X9.3 flare, according to the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center
(SWPC). The last X9 flare occurred in 2006 (coming in at X9.0).

According to SWPC, the flares resulted in radio blackouts: high-
frequency radio experienced a "wide area of blackouts, loss of
contact for up to an hour over [the] sunlit side of Earth," and
low frequency communication, used in navigation, was degraded
for an hour. [The Sun's Wrath: Worst Solar Storms in History]

Solar flares occur when the sun's magnetic field — which creates
the dark sunspots on the star's surface — twists up and
reconnects, blasting energy outward and superheating the solar
surface. X-class solar flares can cause radiation storms in
Earth's upper atmosphere and trigger radio blackouts, as
happened earlier this morning.

During large solar flares, the sun can also sling a cloud of
energetic plasma from its body, an event called a coronal mass
ejection (CME).

"It was accompanied by radio emissions that suggest there's a
potential for a CME," SWPC space scientist Rob Steenburgh told
Space.com. "However, we have to wait until we get some
coronagraph imagery that would capture that event for a
definitive answer."

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