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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 – GEOMAGNETIC STORM UPDATE: Minor (G1) to strong (G3) geomagnetic storms are underway on Jan. 20th as Earth moves through the wake of a super-fast CME that struck on Jan. 19th. Peak storm levels on almost reached category G5 (extreme), and there have been several episodes of G4 (severe) since the CME arrived. Jan. 20-21 2026 – AURORAS-ESPECIALLY 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 “A fantastic show–unbelievable in France!” says photographer Alexandre Croisier. There was a good show in Germany, too. “You could almost read a newspaper.
The light show was also seen in Spain, Austria, Romania, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Latvia, Croatia, Norway, Ireland, Denmark, England, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Iceland and the North Sea. After the show ended in Europe, it continued in the USA with auroras as far south as Alabama, New Mexico, Arizona and California. Jan. 20, 2026 – (Reuters) Russia’s Far East was 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 – GEOMAGNETIC STORM: 3.14 means auroras! the solar wind speed near Earth topped 700 km/s (1.6 million mph). In the United States, auroras were photographed as far south as the West Elk Mountains of Colorado–a surprisingly widespread display considering that the underlying geomagnetic storm was nominally minor (only G1-G2).
At this time of year, the magnetic field of Earth can link to the magnetic field of the sun, providing a superhighway for solar wind to enter our planet’s magnetosphere. Springtime auroras are the result. March 16, 2026 – A powerful late-winter storm system is sweeping across much of the United States today, producing blizzard conditions in the Upper Midwest while severe thunderstorms and tornado threats spread across the South and Mid-Atlantic. 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 March 16, 2026 – Jet-stream SolarCycle 24: 2013 x 2014 x 2015 x 2016 x 2017 |
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