Solar Our Sun is active today

Double_A

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spaceweather.com - Sun Apr 3, 2022

A 'CANYON OF FIRE' JUST OPENED ON THE SUN: A dark filament of magnetism just whipsawed out of the sun's atmosphere, carving a gigantic canyon of fire. The walls of the canyon are at least 20,000 km high and 10 times as long. Fragments of the magnetic filament may soon emerge from the blast site in the form of an Earth-directed CME. Stay tuned and, meanwhile, watch the movie. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text

LONG DURATION SOLAR FLARE AND CME: Yesterday, April 2nd, departing sunspot AR2975 exploded, producing a long-duration M4-class solar flare. Although the sunspot was not directly facing Earth, it might have hurled some debris in our direction:


This SOHO coronagraph movie shows an asymmetric full-halo CME emerging from the blast site. The bulk of the CME will miss, but perhaps not all. A fraction of the storm cloud appears to be heading for Earth and could strike our planet's magnetic field on April 5th or 6th. A glancing blow could spark a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm.

See all the snow at the beginning of the coronagraph movie? That is a storm of energetic protons striking SOHO's digital camera. The protons were accelerated toward Earth by shockwaves at the leading edge of the CME. Solar flare alerts: SMS Text
 

Theophilus

Theophilus
The sun blazes away every day here in Florida. With electric rates expected to rise considerably, I am considering going solar. Whole house solar. It would pay for itself in 20 or less years without the batteries and obviously take longer to recover the battery cost. If the rates climb big time, it will be repaid much quicker.

This would make our household less dependent on the system. Even though I would never live long enough to see it completely paid off, it would still give me some freedom and a backup system if the grid becomes unstable.

The plan is to finalize various proposals next week and make a decision -- which would probably have an installation by September. The system size is approximately 7.2Kw.

Any thoughts??
 

Fairwillows

Where I am supposed to be.
The facts are, that the sun has been spitting out A LOT of solar flares for a couple of months. There was an Xflare yesterday preceded by 3 Mclass flares, all incoming!!! We have been soooo lucky (Blessed), as the most powerful ones have missed our lil blue planet. I've subscribed to him for 10 years. I have NEVER seen so many geomagnetic storms happening as there has been in the past month!!! My phone has been dinging several times per day.
The first video I start my day listening to is his channel, to what he has to say. Very educated in this field. He's not woo....and when he gets excited, I know the S could HTF. I get his earthquake and solar storm notifications on my phone.
He has shown scientific studies relating solar activity and heart attacks, mental instabilities, and earthquakes. Now when he gets all technical....and he does, I stop listening. I get the solar news and then I'm gone.
Good man:
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Solar Storms, More Coming, Earth's Rotation Speed | S0 News Oct.4.2022​

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