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EXTREME 2026 WEATHER Jan 19, 2026 – SIGNIFICANT X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE – Sunspot 4341 erupted today producing an X1.9-class solar flare. The explosion lasted for hours, which makes this flare even more powerful than than its “X1.9” rating would suggest. This video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory says it all:
Jan 19, 2026 – THIS WAS A VERY FAST CME – The CME that struck Earth today crossed the sun-Earth divide in only ~25 hours. That’s fast. For comparison, most CMEs take 3 or 4 days to get here. The high speed of this CME (~1660 km/s) places it in the top few percent of all CMEs observed in the past 30 years. Jan. 19-20, 2026 – GI-G5 CLASS GEOMAGNETIC STORMS – as Earth moves through the wake of a super-fast CME that struck on Jan. 19th. Peak storm levels on almost reached category G5, and there have been several episodes of G4 since the CME arrived. Jan. 20-21 2026 – AURORAS IN EUROPE – Yesterday’s CME impact was perfectly timed for Europe. The severe (G4) geomagnetic storm began just after nightfall in the EU, while the New Moon provided dark skies for photography. There was a good show in Germany, too. “You could almost read a newspaper.
Jan. 20, 2026 – RUSSIA’S FAR EAST BURIED – under metres of snow by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years on Tuesday as a winter blast swept across Asia, dusting Shanghai white and grounding flights in Japan’s northwest. The cold snap disrupted transport across the region, closing roads in China, stranding air travellers in Japan and leaving parts of Russia’s Far East paralysed. Jan 25, 2026 – NEARLY A MILLION CUSTOMERS – across the United States are without electricity and more than 10,000 flights have been cancelled as a monster winter storm threatens to paralyze a large part of the country with heavy snowfall and freezing rain.The storm is forecast to sweep the eastern two-thirds of the nation on Sunday and into the week, plummeting temperatures to below freezing and causing “travel and infrastructure impacts” to linger for several days. March 14th, 2026 – PI DAY GEOMAGNETIC STORM – The solar wind speed near Earth topped 700 km/s (1.6 million mph) means auroras! In the United States, auroras were photographed as far south as the West Elk Mountains of Colorado. March 16, 2026 – JET STREAM March 16, 2026 – A POWERFULL WINTER STORM – is sweeping across much of the United States today. States like Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan are seeing heavy snow (locally 1–3 feet) and winds up to 50–70 mph, creating whiteout conditions and large drifts. Thousands of flights have been cancelled and major highways closed due to snow, wind, and poor visibility. April 18, 2026 – CLASS G-2 GEOMAGNETIC STORM – April 23,2026 – THE SUN IS WAKING UP: A double M1-class solar flare: movie. It was a “sympathetic flare” between two widely-spaced sunspots (4419 and 4420). These sunspots have since produced additional M-class flares including M4 and M5 category events. April 23,2026 – 2X-CLASS SOLAR FLARES & CMEs – In quick succession, sunspot 4419 unleashed X2.4 (0107 UT) and X2.5 (0813 UT) explosions. Alerted by the first flare, Austrian astrophotographer Michael Jaeger caught the second: April 23 – AN EF4 TORNADO – struck the south side of Enid Oklahoma:, with estimated winds of 170–175 mph. It damaged or destroyed dozens of homes, injured about 10 people, and prompted a rare tornado emergency. April 25 – AN EF2 TORNADO – in Runaway Bay, Texas with winds up to 135 mph caused major damage, displaced numerous families, and resulted in one fatality. April 27–28 – MULTIPLE TORNADOES – across Kansas Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Arkansa including several strong tornado warnings and at least one observed tornado near the St. Louis region. July 2, 2026 – X1.1-CLASS, 2 M3-CLASS & M8.5-CLASS FLARES & CME – Solar activity remains high. Three sunspots are participating (4477, 4478 and 4479). Consider this 8-hour movie recorded on July 1st by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory:
July 3-4 – G3-CLASS GEOMAGNETIC STORM – “The auroras were visible with the naked eye–a really strong and active display,” with aurora reports from New Mexico, Nebraska, Texas, Kentucky, Utah, Colorado, Washington, Pennsylvania, New York, Idaho, Virginia, Wyoming, Ohio, Oregon, Nevada, California, Arizona–and many other places. July 6, 2026 – LIGHTNING & WILDFIRES – 20,000 hectares (49,500 acres) have burned in Portugal, Spain, France and Greece. In the remote foothills of the French Pyrenees near the Spanish border, 700 firefighters were struggling to contain an out-of-control wildfire that has scorched 5,000 hectares and prompted the evacuation of more than 10,000 people. July 4, 2026 – LIGHTNING & WILDFIRES – Northwestern Ontario experienced widespread thunderstorms producing thousands of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes particularly around Red Lake, Sioux Lookout, Dryden, Kenora, Fort Frances, and Nipigon.
July 15, 2026 – 180 ACTIVE WILDFIRES – with more than 100 burning out of control. Smoke from the northwestern Ontario fires spread across southern Ontario, and Toronto experienced some of the poorest air quality recorded among major cities worldwide that day. SolarCycle 24: 2013 x 2014 x 2015 x 2016 x 2017 The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officially declared the onset of a historically strong, potentially “super” El Niño for 2026, with sea-surface temperatures surging well above average. This climate pattern, which alters global wind and atmospheric currents, is expected to continue strengthening into the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2026-2027.
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Atoms are Electrons and Positrons
