• Highlights of solar and geomagnetic activity: May 2 – 8, 2022

    olar activity ranged from low to high levels from May 2 to 8, 2022. In total, the Sun produced 79 C-class solar flares, 8 M-class and 1 X-class. Over the past 30 days, 35 M-class flares were produced and 4 X-class.

  • Major X1.1 solar flare erupts from Active Region 2994

    A major solar flare measuring X1.1 at its peak erupted from newly numbered Active Region 2994 at 03:34 UTC on April 17, 2022. The event started at 03:17 UTC and ended at 03:51. A coronal mass ejection (CME) was produced during the event but the location of the source region does not favor Earth-directed CMEs. This will change in the days ahead as the region turns into geoeffective position.