X1.3 solar flare at 17:39 UTC 2022 March 30

Mar30
by kevin on March 30, 2022 at 20:25 and modified on March 30, 2022. at 20:41
Posted In: astronomy

There were 17 solar flares yesterday, mostly C Class and a couple of M class… Today was this stupendous but short lived X1.3 class Solar Flare from Active Region AR12975… We actually received the first two notifications from the RadioJove email distribution list, before the normal smartphone app spaceweatherlive, which we normally get within 5 minutes of the event.
This was a quick screen capture of the event, going offscale!
We will regenerate this a little later.
We also grabbed a short sound clip from it as well:

And.. we also have the SuperSID plot from today.. it definitely caught the initial flare but the effect on the ionosphere last several hours afterward!