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MASSIVE Solar Flare Could Hit Earth With Glancing Blow Sparking Geomagnetic Storm TODAY

The solar flare, also known as a Coronal Mass Injection (CME), was picked up by physicists on Wednesday May 25. CMEs are powerful eruptions of plasma on the Sun's surface

Daily Mirror 28 MAY 2022

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An enormous solar flare could hit Earth with a “glancing blow” today, producing “G1-class geomagnetic storms”, experts have said.

The solar flare, also known as a Coronal Mass Injection (CME), was picked up by physicists on Wednesday May 25. CMEs are powerful eruptions of plasma on the Sun's surface.

Billions of tons of material are lifted off the surface and can explode away from the Sun with the force of around 20 million nuclear explosions.

The phenomenon is very common and not all flares travel towards the Earth, but when they do, they have the power to be disruptive.

Some flares can reach speeds of between 250km-3,000km a second, according to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), and can be enormous in size.

SpaceWeather.com said: "A magnetic filament snaking through the corpse of decayed sunspot AR3016 erupted on May 25th (1824 UT), producing a M1-class solar flare.

Not all flares travel towards the Earth, but when they do, they have the power to be disruptive

"Coronagraph images from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) confirm that the explosion hurled a CME into space.

"The bulk of the CME will miss Earth, passing just ahead and south of our planet. However, a fraction of the cloud will hit.

"NOAA analysts expect a glancing blow to Earth's magnetosphere on May 28th with a chance of minor G1-class geomagnetic storms."

Scientists don't quite yet understand what causes CME's, but do believe that it is something to do with the Sun's magnetic field.

EarthSky.org explained: "Because the sun is a fluid, turbulence tends to twist the magnetic field into complex contortions. Twist the field too much, and it kinks, much like a phone cord or toy Slinky.

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Scientists don't quite yet understand what causes CME's, but do believe that it is something to do with the Sun's magnetic field

"These kinks snap the magnetic field and can potentially drive vast amounts of plasma into space."

Each solar flare that shoots through space and hits Earth can spark a geomagnetic storm, which occurs if enough energy from the solar wind is exchanged in a close proximity to Earth.

The storms are then ranked by US Space Weather Centre (SWPC) on a scale of G1 Minor up to G5 Extreme.

We mainly notice the impact of solar flares and subsequent geomagnetic storms when they affect our tech on Earth - with our planet’s magnetic field helping to protect us from more extreme consequences to humans.