X class flare

I wonder what will happen, its directed to Earth... oh, oh...

www.spaceweather.com...

Latest reports suggest its earth directed.

2 hours on and its still at M2 level.

Hang the Transit of Venus on your wall! Hubble-quality images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory are now available as metallic posters in the Space Weather Store. Venus Transit metal posters X-FLARE! Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare on July 12th at 1653 UT. Because the sunspot was directly facing Earth at the time of the blast, this is a geoeffective event. Stay tuned for updates about possible CMEs and radio blackouts. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.

DIRECT HIT!!!!

when was the last X class to have a Direct Hit?

Don't know but I wonder if communication goes out, EQ's, etc?

I guess we'll find out if we start getting internet problems and power outages,etc but I think it will just make some pretty lights in the sky.

Got down to c9.8.

I might be wrong here but it looks as if its climbing again.

Statiscal blip. Its still falling.

It's only an X1.4 so it's not too big. It probably will cause some communications disruptions and most likely Auroras at lower lattitudes. I expect to see som here where I live with this one.

here is the latest from spaceweather.com
www.spaceweather.com...

X-FLARE! Big sunspot AR1520 unleashed an X1.4-class solar flare on July 12th at 1653 UT. Because this sunspot is directly facing Earth, everything about the blast was geoeffective. For one thing, it hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward our planet. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will hit Earth on July 14th around 10:20 UT (+/- 7 hours) and could spark strong geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend.

Here is a link to the forecast track for the flare.www.spaceweather.com...