2024

EXTREME WEATHER 2024

MAY 7 2024, GIANT SUNSPOT AR3664 HAS GROWN SO LARGE – it rivals the Carrington sunspot of 1859 in size and appearance. Sprawling almost 200,000 km from end to end, it is 15 times wider than Earth. You can see AR3664 through ordinary eclipse glasses with no magnification.

MAY 10 -11 2024: CLASS-G5 GEOMAGNETIC STORM – The first of six CMEs hurled toward Earth by giant sunspot AR3664 hit our planet’s magnetic field today. The impact sparked the biggest geomagnetic storm in almost 20 years producing auroras across Europe, Asia, Mexico, and all 50 US states. Hundreds of millions of people saw the colored lights for the first time in their lives.

May 10, 2025 wildfires

MAY 11, 2024: ALBERTA WILDFIRES – 11 new wildfire prompt evacuation alerts expanded near Fort McMurray and the nearby community of Saprae Creek as an out-of-control wildfire burns south of the city.

May 11, 2025 wildfires

May 12 2024: MANATOBA WILDFIRES- Massive wildfire in Manitoba has grown exponentially. The out-of-control wildfire near Flin Flon grew from 3,000 hectares Saturday to its current size of 35,000 hectares, according to the latest bulletin. The province says the blaze is within one kilometre of the community of Cranberry Portage, which is being evacuated.

May 12 2024: AFGHANISTAN FLASH FLOODING – devastated villages in northern Afghanistan, killing over 300 people and injuring more than 1,600, as villagers buried their dead and aid agencies warned of havoc.

MAY 13 2024: INDONESIA FLASH FLOODING – At least 41 people have now been confirmed dead after hours of torrential rain triggered flash floods and cold lava flow from a volcano in western Indonesia over the weekend. 17 other people remained missing after the downpour swept ash and large rocks down Mount Marapi, the most active volcano on Sumatra island.

SEPT 10 2024: EXTREME UV FLASH & FULL HALO CME – Sunspot AR3814 exploded directly facing Earth: The ultraviolet flash (category M1.2) ionized the top of Earth’s atmosphere and caused a brief shortwave radio blackout over the Pacific Ocean. Active sunspot AR3814 is crackling with solar flares and may have hurled as many as four CMEs toward Earth in the past 36 hours.

SEPT 12-13, 2024: X-CLASS FLARE & G3 CLASS GEOMAGNETIC STORM

SEPT 15-16 2024: EUROPE FLASH FLOODING – At least eight people have died after the heaviest rain in years hit central and eastern Europe, causing flooding and widespread disruption. A slow-moving low pressure system dubbed Storm Boris dumped a month’s worth of rain onto several of Europe’s historic capitals, including Vienna, Bratislava and Prague.

SEPT 14 2024: X-5 CLASS FLARE, EXTREME UV FLASH AND CME

SEPT 16: G4-CLASS GEOMAGNETIC STORM & CIRCUMPOLAR AURORAS

SEPT 15 – 18, 2024: POTRUGAL WILDFIRES – A series of more than 1,000 wildfires, 128 devastating, spread through Portugal burning more than 135,000 hectares, resulting in the deaths of at least nine people.

SEPT 18 2024, FLASH FGLOODING ITALY – Storm Boris moved into Italy late last week, having earlier caused devastation and some of the worst floods in decades in parts of Austria, Romania, the Czech Republic and Poland. More than 1,000 people in Emilia-Romagna were forced to evacuate after floods and landslides.

SEPT 22 2024: FLASH FLOODING JAPAN – Heavy rain caused extensive flooding in central Japan over the weekend, as more than a dozen rivers overflowed by late morning on Saturday, . On Saturday morning 121mm of rain was recorded in one hour in Wajima, and 84.5mm in Suzu. This was the heaviest rain observed in these locations since comparative data became available in 1929. Niigata and Yamagata prefectures were also affected with 16,000 people told to evacuate.