Sunfags eyes on, please.

I kept hearing space weather alerts going off on my phone, so I thought I'd take a look. An M8.1 about an hour ago may have let loose a big CME. Can't see it at the moment because it came from directly earth facing center disk (N20E01). It'll take some time to see if expands beyond the corona for the coronagraphs to observe it, because right now the sun is directly behind it blinding the cameras. With the magnetic shields of the planet being so weak, this could be interesting. Here are the alerts, both the Type II and IV radio signatures indicate a large and fast CME (directly towards us) being released:

Space Weather Message Code: ALTTP4

Serial Number: 698

Issue Time: 2025 Dec 06 2107 UTC

ALERT: Type IV Radio Emission

Begin Time: 2025 Dec 06 2057 UTC

Description: Type IV emissions occur in association with major eruptions on the sun and are typically associated with strong coronal mass ejections and solar radiation storms.

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Space Weather Message Code: SUMXM5

Serial Number: 301

Issue Time: 2025 Dec 06 2057 UTC

SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded M5

Begin Time: 2025 Dec 06 2029 UTC

Maximum Time: 2025 Dec 06 2039 UTC

End Time: 2025 Dec 06 2049 UTC

X-ray Class: M8.1

Optical Class: 2b

Location: N20E01

NOAA Scale: R2 - Moderate

NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at

www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

Potential Impacts: Area of impact centered primarily on sub-solar point on the sunlit side of Earth.

Radio - Limited blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication for tens of minutes.

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Space Weather Message Code: SUM10R

Serial Number: 892

Issue Time: 2025 Dec 06 2054 UTC

SUMMARY: 10cm Radio Burst

Begin Time: 2025 Dec 06 2035 UTC

Maximum Time: 2025 Dec 06 2036 UTC

End Time: 2025 Dec 06 2039 UTC

Duration: 4 minutes

Peak Flux: 1100 sfu

Latest Penticton Noon Flux: 200 sfu

Description: A 10cm radio burst indicates that the electromagnetic burst associated with a solar flare at the 10cm wavelength was double or greater than the initial 10cm radio background. This can be indicative of significant radio noise in association with a solar flare. This noise is generally short-lived but can cause interference for sensitive receivers including radar, GPS, and satellite communications.

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Space Weather Message Code: ALTTP2

Serial Number: 1451

Issue Time: 2025 Dec 06 2051 UTC

ALERT: Type II Radio Emission

Begin Time: 2025 Dec 06 2040 UTC

Estimated Velocity: 1143 km/s

Description: Type II emissions occur in association with eruptions on the sun and typically indicate a coronal mass ejection is associated with a flare event.

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Space Weather Message Code: ALTXMF

Serial Number: 504

Issue Time: 2025 Dec 06 2041 UTC

ALERT: X-Ray Flux exceeded M5

Threshold Reached: 2025 Dec 06 2037 UTC

NOAA Scale: R2 - Moderate

NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at

www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

Potential Impacts: Area of impact centered on sub-solar point on the sunlit side of Earth. Extent of blackout of HF (high frequency) radio communication dependent upon current X-ray Flux intensity. For real-time information on affected area and expected duration please see http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/d-region-absorption-predictions-d-rap.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings

solarham.com

>>23949244

Preliminary sensor data looks like the sun launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly at the earth and early indications are that it could be both big and fast.

CMEs are eruptions of solar plasma that launch off the sun into space. These have mass and charge and compared to planets are huge. Most miss us, some hit us and we see them as aurora and the stronger ones carry a lot of charged particles down into our planet and trigger earthquakes, fry powerlines and transformers, fry satellites, increase satellite drag, sometimes catastrophically. Lots of things. Nuclear wars are a huge problem, a big CME connecting a large mass of plasma into the earth could be back to the 1800's for the planet.

That's why we watch it. It's likely the biggest of the bad things and sooner or later it'll happen. We just want it to happen outside of the human civilization window.

>>23949275

The x-flare associated with the M8.1 and the CME radio alerts came from the much smaller one (AR4299) just to the north of the monster cluster(AR4294/4296)

>>23949298

Some favorable signs regarding the potential CME associated with the M8.1 flare: Coronagraph images indicate a faint full halo CME was launched, but it doesn't seem to be massive. G1 storm alerts up for the next couple of days. Also, LASCO C2 and C3 coronagraphs didn't get snowed out like is typical when more energetic and massive CMEs launch a lot protons at near relativistic speeds out ahead of the main CME. Proton flux measures are only slightly elevated, not dramatically increased as with the big events. And lastly, the flare seems to have fallen back to baseline quickly rather slowly decaying as is often the case with the more massive eruptions.

Hopefully this'll be all for awhile and these big regions can just move along away from facing us.

>>23949587

Good catch. Freudian slip. On your game.

>>23949640

>>23949644

Looks like a lot of morgue makeup models behind GEOTUS.

>>23949667