Meh. Happens all the time, worth keeping an eye on
https://spaceweather.com/
It’s gonna likely be nothing, but perhaps some auroras in the states.
Slide. Weak one at that.
No giant solar flare is coming. We’ll get a glancing blow CME that might cause some auroras. Probably not even gonna be visible in the lower 48.
Third one this week.
It would take two strong CMEs running back to back to crack our magnetic field enough to cause any blackouts.
Try harder.
I’m always on the lookout to see auroras where I live. So I keep an eye on https://spaceweather.com
You’re little slide post is a nothing burger. No blackouts, no nothing.
Pic related.
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/sun_darkness.html
Sorry science confuses you. Perhaps you should just stick to crayons.
Some follow up reading…
Paper on the Quebec event.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019SW002278
Simplified explanation for the slow…
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/03/12/the-great-quebec-blackout/
Pertinent info:
Much is still unknown about the March 1989 event. It occurred long before modern satellites were monitoring the sun 24/7. To piece together what happened, Boteler has sifted through old records of radio emissions, magnetograms, and other 80s-era data sources. He recently published a paper in the research journal Space Weather summarizing his findings — including a surprise:
“There were not one, but two CMEs,” he says.
The sunspot that hurled the CMEs toward Earth, region 5395, was one of the most active sunspot groups ever observed. In the days around the Quebec blackout it produced more than a dozen M- and X-class solar flares. Two of the explosions (an X4.5 on March 10th and an M7.3 on March 12th) targeted Earth with CMEs.
“The first CME cleared a path for the second CME, allowing it to strike with unusual force,” says Boteler. “The lights in Québec went out just minutes after it arrived.”