First of all, a happy new year to all of our visitors! Thank you for making 2025 an unforgettable year with all of your amazing feedback and support! As is a tradition in many places, our Sun also celebrates that we again survived another lap around the Sun. Fireworks today as the Sun produced a M7.1 solar flare (R2-moderate) which peakerd at 13:51 UTC.<\/p>\n
The solar flare took place around sunspot region 4324 which is located on the Sun’s northern hemisphere, just a few degrees east of the central meridian. Type II and IV radio emissions were observed following the eruption and we see on coronagraph imagery from SOHO\/LASCO the resulting CME as it erupts out into space.<\/p>\n
A faint halo outline can be spotted but the bulk of the trajectory is heading well north-east of us. We expect a glancing blow from this coronal mass ejection late on Friday, 2 January. Considering the faint halo outline we do not expect more than minor G1 geomagnetic storm conditions at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First of all, a happy new year to all of our visitors! Thank you for making 2025 an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[9124,6956,100915,6958,6955,115366,115373,18,115372,19,17,115367,20391,6951,133,115371,100766,17134,28633,451,14001,115369,115368,115365,109951,115370,6420],"class_list":["post-261448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aurora","tag-aurora-alert","tag-aurora-australis","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-aurora-forecast","tag-auroral-activity","tag-dscovr","tag-eire","tag-epam","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kp-index","tag-live","tag-northern-lights","tag-science","tag-sdo","tag-solar-activity","tag-solar-flares","tag-solar-wind","tag-space","tag-space-weather","tag-space-weather-alerts","tag-space-weather-updates","tag-spaceweatherlive","tag-stereo","tag-sunspots","tag-the-sun"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115819307781458114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}