Solar Flare Hits Earth

A powerful solar flare erupted from the Sun, causing radio blackouts across North America and the Pacific Ocean. The flare was classified as an X1.5 on the solar flare scale. An X1.5 flare can emit energy equivalent to billions of hydrogen bombs. The flare caused radio communications to be disrupted in the western United States and the Pacific Ocean. The radio blackouts affected amateur radio operators, air traffic controllers, and GPS users across the US. The blackouts lasted for several hours, but they have since subsided. Space weather forecasters are warning that there could be more solar flares on the way. The sun is currently escalating towards the peak of its 11-year activity cycle, predicted to take place in July 2025. Hence, the Sun is expected to produce more powerful flares in the coming months.

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[MattSATC]

This occurred on August 7th 2023 at 3:46pm CDT

[tinabaldwin]

I heard absolutely nothing about this until Now. Amazing!

[KanonLooksLikeL]

Thanks to the magnetic field protecting our planet from being toasted

[Cheka__]

That flare fried my iPhone. I'm suing the crap out of the sun.

[MrFirmbottom]

When the Sun sneezes it's equal to several billion hydrogen bombs?

Cute and terrifying.

[mr.boblox]

Man space videos never fail to scare me but…I still want to watch them

[jolandaschippers]

People with a pacemaker or ICD should be informed by a system trough an App I think in the very near future.

[HowAreMyCreations]

After I saw this information ℹ️
I literally showed this video to 50 people.😙😙

[Mikey]

Sun really said “ Stop making solar flare edits” 😂

[harmvandorp]

X 1.5 flare is nothing. It gets interesting at X28. The Carrington event more than X50.

[in_the_building]

Is this why my Wi-Fi was out all day on Wednesday

[diontury]

It apparently is going to get hotter
than it already is 🥵

[karenherkless]

I heard someone talking about this sort of thing happening to the power grid. That our government should do something to protect it, just in case. I guess they'd better be stepping up!

[rcbustanut]

Looks like the sun's having hot flashes! On the sunny side, no more pms!

[Quandalee]

My dad:
Nice one son/sun but your sneezing is nothing compared to mine

[AmericanGoverment]

*Earth's magnetic field has left the chat.*

[GregoryChew]

Stuff like this is how people get superpowers.

[sunshinesova]

There's been solar flares for years now and here we are still alive lol. I've seen no outages from flares.

[Lokentaemus]

Interesting, during the time the wildfires were happening here on Maui.

[Terri]

I remember that day! It was a day that everybody will remember for the rest of their lives! Radios were out for over 15 minutes!