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SPACEWEATHER 07/11/2023: NOAA Solar Activity Update

Jul11

Earth-facing Sunspot 3363

Greetings Kin,
NOAA reports an M6.8 class coronal event today. I don’t see the sunspot number in the report to see if it came from the huge Earth-facing AR3363. Yesterday’s CME came from a smaller spot on the lower right limb. CME’s are forecast with 40-45% chance of radio frequency disruptions in the higher atmosphere. Impacts are expected to reach Earth from the two from July 12-13, 2023.

I would have expected the size/shape of the sunspot to change after a projection, so we may yet to know what AR3363 might do.

Below, the update is included above the original Spaceweather post.

Debra, 9 Eagle/MEN

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SPACEWEATHER 07/10/2023: Solar Flare and Incoming CME

Jul11

Sunspots: 07/11/2023 – Spaceweather.com

SPACEWEATHER NEWS: 07/11/2023

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: Minor G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on July 13th when a CME is expected to pass close to Earth. NASA and NOAA models of the CME give different results. NASA predicts a glancing blow, NOAA a clean miss. Either way, a close encounter could disturb Earth’s magnetic field and produce high latitude auroras.

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SPACEWEATHER: Noctilucent Clouds, Sunspots, and Solar Flares (July 2023)

Jul5

Greetings Beloved Kin,

The photographer didn’t identify whether this is Venus or Saturn in the photo of the Noctilucent clouds over Poland. The Full Thunder Supermoon is reflected in today’s weather in Coffeyville, KS and surrounding area. The sky is dark and rumbling with warnings of high winds later this morning. We can use the rain, forecast to change from light to moderate as the winds blow storm clouds this way.

The Sun produced an X-class flare on July 2, 2023. Though not a direct blow toward Earth, it’s likely to produce sky events like the Noctilucent clouds captured in the photo.

SPACEWEATHER NEWS: JULY 5, 2023 

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WATCH: NOAA forecasters say that G1-class geomagnetic storms are possible on July 7th when a partial halo CME is expected to hit Earth’s magnetic field. It was hurled in our direction yesterday by an explosion in the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR3359. 

SUNSPOT COUNTS HIT A 21-YEAR HIGH: The sun is partying like it’s 2002. That’s the last time sunspot counts were as high as they are now. The monthly average sunspot number for June 2023 was 163, according to the Royal Observatory of Belgium’s Solar Influences Data Analysis Center. This eclipses every month since Sept. 2002.

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