Viewing archive of Wednesday, 20 April 2022

Previous rotation Previous day Calendar

Next day Next rotation

Select the desired archive item

M7.3 and X2.2 solar flares

With sunspot regions 2993 and 2994 we have two formidable sunspot regions on the earth-facing solar disk. These regions are fairly stable but did loose some magnetic complexity since they first appeared on the east limb. C and even M-class flares remain possible from these sunspot regions but it is departing sunspot region 2992 that has been stealing the show today. First it produced an M7.3 (R2-moderate) solar flare that peaked at 01:36 UTC which was quickly followed by the strongest solar flare of the current Solar Cycle thus far: X2.2 (R3-strong) at 03:57 UTC.

<< Go to previous page

Latest news

Sunday, 1 February 2026

Complex sunspot region 4366

Monday, 19 January 2026

CME impact! S4 solar radiation storm

Sunday, 18 January 2026

X1.9 solar flare with earth-directed CME

More news

Latest forum messages

Incoming & Unnumbered Active Regions 168 What, no CH/HSS thread? 51 AR4374 19 Current Farside Activity 382 Filaments and prominences 489

Support SpaceWeatherLive.com!

A lot of people come to SpaceWeatherLive to follow the Solar activity or if there is a chance to see the aurora, but with more traffic comes higher costs to keep the servers online. If you like SpaceWeatherLive and want to support the project you can choose a subscription for an ad-free site or consider a donation. With your help we can keep SpaceWeatherLive online!