Big Flare Players Grow & A Glancing Solar Storm Blow | Space Weather News 05 November 2024

This week our star kicks activity into high gear with some fast-growing active regions in Earth view. One of these taking center stage is Region 3883, which has fired multiple big flares and launched a very dense solar storm that looks to have an Earth-directed component. If this storm grazes Earth, as the models predict it will, it could cause some aurora shows at high latitudes starting midday to late November 6. Even if this storm misses Earth, the region is remaining active and is beginning to rotate into the Earth-strike zone now. We may see more Earth-directed events from it in the coming days. Amateur radio operators and GPS users need to remain vigilant for signal issues on Earth’s dayside since R3-level radio blackouts are on back on the menu. We have already seen several big flares (at the R2-level) over the past couple days. Noise on the dayside radio bands is expected to remain high over the course of this week. Learn the details of the coming solar storm, watch Region 3883 and a few others develop into big-flare players, and find out what else our Sun has in store.