Storms Die Down but New Regions Pop Up | Space Weather Spotlight 01 September 2024

Although we are calming down from several solar storms that hit back to back over the past week and gave us some decent aurora, our Sun isn’t calming down. We have four active regions that are about to rotate into Earth view that have been firing big flares and launching solar storms on the Sun’s farside. Two of these regions are familiar big-flare players from the previous rotation. In fact, one of them (old Region 3786) fired an M5.6-flare causing an R2-level radio blackout just a few hours ago. Along with that flare, it also launched a big non-Earth-directed solar storm and a weak radiation storm too. Expect this region, along with the other three to rotate into Earth-view over the next 24 to 48 hours. This means radio noise and radio blackout risk is expected to increase on Earth’s dayside over the coming week. We also could be in for more Earth-directed solar storm launches later this week as well. Learn the details of these new regions about to rotate into Earth view, find out if any aurora will be visible, and see what else our Sun has in store this week.