A belated Saint Patrick's day message of hope to all y'all regardless of whatever befall us.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AsrYA28CtYQ
Dave

Just checked NOAA page...a flare just went over the lower X Class line.
Then I looked up news stories... it's X1.38 flare, second strongest in current 11 year cycle.

One story mentions it's strong enough to cause localized power grid failures.

"Sunspot Flings Out 17 Solar Flares, Meaning Big Auroras May Be Coming Our Way"
https://www.iflscience.com/space/sunspo ... g-our-way/
"AR2975 has now produced an X-class flare, which could make for even more dramatic polar lights over the weekend.

The sunspot AR2975 has fired off 17 flares since Monday and it may not be done yet. Some of the charged particles blasted out in the process look likely to hit the Earth's atmosphere, including a “Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection”, which isn't quite as scary as it sounds. If these do indeed come our way observers at high latitudes can look forward to spectacular auroral displays over the next three days."

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sc ... gas-toward
"Gargantuan Explosions Rock the Sun, Launching a "Cannibal" Cloud of Gas Toward Earth"

"Since Monday, March 28th, the Sun has unleashed 17 or more solar flares — incredibly intense bursts of radiation arising from the explosive releases of magnetic energy. The most recent occurred today, peaking at 1:35 p.m. ET (17:35 UTC), according to NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. It was a super-powerful X-class flare, the most intense kind."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85-p9EIEVUA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_ ... %20effects.