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SPACEWEATHER: Auroras Across USA; 3-Day Storm Subsiding

Active Region Holds Potential for X-Class Flares

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 01/21/2026

AURORAS SPREAD ACROSS THE USA: You don’t see this very often: Desert succulents surrounded by Northern Lights. Chris Cook photographed the rare juxtaposition in southern California on Jan. 19th:

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WORLDLY WEATHER: SPAM for Christmas

The Gift that keeps on giving…

I thought I was going viral for Christmas. Turns out I’m being flooded with robot spam. I’ve turned on “defense” setting that’s supposed to resolve what “brute force” security can’t handle???

For 24 hours you may see a “Checking your browser” hesitation of a few moments. It “appears to be” a captcha to robots, transparent to human traffic. Just letting you know it has no effect on your end.

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SPACEWEATHER: Solar Lights of Christmas

Potential for X-Class Flares, Auroras, and Polar Stratospheric Clouds

Earth exists within the high speed Solar Winds from the coronal hole, and active Sunspot 4321 is position for a geoeffective strike. (4321 resolves to 10 (X) the Master’s number.) Note the major prominence of light turning from the farside.

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: DEC 25, 2025

AN X-FLARE FOR CHRISTMAS? Growing rapidly in the sun’s southern hemisphere, new sunspot 4321 has an unstable ‘beta-gamma-delta’ magnetic field. This means it is dangerous. The sunspot poses a threat for Earth-directed X-flares on Christmas Day.

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SPACEWEATHER: Mixed-polarity magnetic fields could connect and explode

Complex Sunspots, Potential for X-Class Flares

SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 11/06/2024

COMPLEX SUNSPOTS ARE TURNING TOWARD EARTH: NOAA forecasters estimate a 35% chance of an X-class solar flare today. If so, it will probably come from one of these sunspots now turning toward Earth:

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