NOAA Warns Of Solar Flare Event September 28th 2025!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, NOAA has come out and warned about a moderate flare event. It was not directly Earth-facing. However, it might have an Earth component to it. The solar flare ended up being an M6.4 and caused an R2 radio blackout. This occurred at 4.43 Eastern Time. So about 3.43 my time central time. This came from active region 42.32. And I will go into a bit of detail on this. All right, this is the largest flare that we've had in weeks, several weeks, if not a couple of months. We had a couple of really weak M flares, three M1 flares yesterday. Again, this was an M6.4 flare here. And look, it happened right about 8.43 UTC time, which again, matches up to the middle of the night for me here centrally in the U.S. All right, heading over to Space Weather Live, as you can see, that M6.45 solar flare was the strongest in 72 hours, and I did mention the strongest really in a month or more time period. It did come from 42. 4232 and it's a simple sunspot. You can tell by it being in green here which means it's not very complex magnetically. You can see that it's generated a lot of the solar flares for today along with 4233. Now, we had a 5% chance of an X-class solar flare, a 55% chance of an M-class solar flare. That ship has sailed, and we have been maintaining a C-class baseline for the last few weeks for sure. We dropped shortly below to a B-class, but immediately returned to a C-class baseline. So, we're always getting a C-flare. It used to be, well, newsworthy. Now it's the baseline. This M6.45 is newsworthy at this point. All right, we've got four sunspot groups going around the far limb there. And all together on the solar disk, it looks like we have 12 sunspot groups, although a lot of them look like they're headed around the far side of our sun. We've got more on the back side we'll take a quick look at. But 4232 is right here, you can see it's a large sunspot group here, and 4233 is right above that. This entire area looks like it's going to become much more magnetically complex. We do have a good chance of this area here, 4230 and 4226 also becoming more complex. All right, so it's real easy for us to see. Forty-two. 32 right here, and 42, 33 right above it here. You can actually see the event there. And there it went. I don't know if it lifted a coronal mass ejection. If it did, it could have an Earth component, as Earth did get an R2 radio blackout, as mentioned. Heading over to LASCO C3, it did look like there was a light CME lifting. We also had this happen. I've never seen anything like it, but I thought it might be worth showing you guys. This is on our LASCO C3, obviously an impact of some sort. The sun is the little white circle here. This is the lens cover, and I'm not sure what occurred. Did it supernova? I'm really not quite sure, but I don't think so. I don't think we'd be, well, on the computer at this point. All right, looking at NOAA's KP index forecast from the 28th, 28th, and 30th. They don't see anything inbound. It's going to be a very, very mild day today, tomorrow, and through the 30th. And we'll take a look at the space weather spiral. I don't think they would have updated it. It is Sunday. We'll know tomorrow about a CME from that solar flare. But I would expect more solar flaring from that sunspot. And 4233, and perhaps the other two that we talked about as well. All right, today is the 28th, so it looks like they did update this thing. Based on the 28th being right here, it looks like they were really not expecting any plasma from this CME if it does occur. This plasma doesn't go above 7 centimeters cubed, 10 being the space weather threshold. They have solar winds. Going up along the second third to about 600 kilometers per second, but there's no earth-facing crawl hole, which is very strange indeed. And unfortunately, that flare actually occurred before the feed that we have here was a strong C-flare over the Atlantic Ocean. And not much else has happened throughout the day, but everyone is getting a healthy dose of X-ray radiation, as we can see from our D-region absorption prediction center. D-region being the lowest part of our atmosphere. In summary, NOAA mentioned a moderate flare event that peaked at 843 UTC time. And, well, that came from Sunspot Group. AR-4232, it was an M6.4 flare, and it did cause an R2 radio blackout, which has since then passed, and it could have created a coronal mass ejection or lifted a coronal mass ejection off the sun's surface, but we won't really know that until tomorrow. If it did, there's a chance that it could have an Earth component to it. After all, we were hit by the X-rays and protons on our D-region absorption prediction center. With that said, folks, I do expect more flaring from these sunspots that just came around the limb. And we have some that are central disks now that look like they're trying to become more complex. God bless, share, subscribe, and always remember, anything's possible, bizarro.