Sunday, April 3, 2011

Huge Sun CME 4/3/11 - Not Sure if it is Earth Directed as of Yet. Update - It is Earth Directed

The Sun released one of the largest CME's I have seen. A huge fire ball. Space Weather does not have anything more than a barely made C flare coming off the Sun, but this CME is much bigger than that. Here is the graph for the sun released flare. There is a prolonged flare on the graph that matches the video in time. If this is Earth directed we will get hit very hard. The magnetosphere has been very weak the last couple of hits as it has twisted up even as we have been getting hit. Let's hope this is not Earth directed.  If this hits the Earth, I would expect some Big quakes hitting.  The Japan quake happened as an X flare with multiple M flares were hitting the Earth. 

UPDATE - The CME is Earth directed.




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