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M2.3 solar flare

Saturday, 2 January 2016 09:02 UTC

M2.3 solar flare

A long duration M2.3 solar flare (R1-minor) took place around sunspot region 2473 near the west limb and peaked today at 00:11 UTC.

ALERT: Type IV Radio Emission
Begin Time: 2016 Jan 01 2324 UTC
ALERT: Type II Radio Emission
Begin Time: 2016 Jan 01 2322 UTC
Estimated Velocity: 1019 km/s

This solar flare was highly eruptive and launched a partial halo coronal mass ejection of the west limb which is unlikely to hit Earth. It also caused a minor S1 solar radiation storm which causes HF radio issues through polar regions.

Animation: the partial halo coronal mass ejection launched by today M2.3 solar flare.

Any mentioned solar flare in this article has a scaling factor applied by the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), the reported solar flares are 42% smaller than for the science quality data. The scaling factor has been removed from our archived solar flare data to reflect the true physical units.

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