{"id":430435,"date":"2025-12-07T06:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T06:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T06:42:19","slug":"strong-m8-1-solar-flare-erupts-from-geoeffective-region-4299-producing-fast-cme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/430435\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong M8.1 solar flare erupts from geoeffective Region 4299, producing fast CME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Type II Radio Emission with an estimated velocity of 1 143 km\/s was associated with the event, suggesting a coronal mass ejection (CME) was produced during the event.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a 10cm Radio burst lasting 4 minutes and with a peak flux of 1 100 sfu was registered from 20:35 to 20:39 UTC. A 10cm radio burst indicates that the electromagnetic burst associated with a solar flare at the 10cm wavelength was double or greater than the initial 10cm radio background.<\/p>\n<p>This can be indicative of significant radio noise in association with a solar flare. This noise is generally short-lived but can cause interference for sensitive receivers, including radar, GPS, and satellite communications.<\/p>\n<p><video height=\"960\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 960;\" width=\"1920\" controls=\"\" loop=\"\" playsinline=\"\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/m8.1-solar-flare-december-6-2025.webm\"\/>M8.1 solar flare on December 6, 2025. Credit: NASA\/SDO, Helioviewer, The Watchers<\/p>\n<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/goes-x-ray-flux-1-minute-m8.1-solar-flare-december-6-2025-1024x576.webp.webp\" alt=\"goes-x-ray-flux-1-minute m8.1 solar flare december 6 2025\" class=\"wp-image-239314\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Image credit: SWPC<\/p>\n<p>Region 4299 is located in a geoeffective position, suggesting CMEs produced by it are likely to be Earth-directed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"sunspots on december 6 2025\" class=\"wp-image-239313 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sunspots-on-december-6-2025.webp.webp\"  data-\/>Sunspots on December 6, 2025. Credit: NASA\/SDO HMI<\/p>\n<p>The region has a \u2018beta-delta\u2019 magnetic configuration and is capable of producing more strong eruptions on the Sun. Earth-directed CMEs from this region are likely in the days ahead.<\/p>\n<p>SWPC forecasters call for a 70% chance of M- and a 15% chance of X-class solar flares through December 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Type II Radio Emission with an estimated velocity of 1 143 km\/s was associated with the event,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":430436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,200013,27664,783,797,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-430435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-solar-activity","10":"tag-solar-flares","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-space-weather","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115676929168561602","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}