#X-CLASS #SOLARFLARE: As predicted, strangely-magnetized sunspot AR3784 (described below) produced an X1-class solar flare today. The explosion was directly facing #Earth:

#Radiation from the flare ionized the top of Earth's atmosphere, causing a deep shortwave radio blackout over India and the Middle East: map. The explosion might have hurled a faint halo CME toward Earth, but the jury's still out.

X-ray #SolarFlares
6-hr max: M5 1549 UT Aug14
24-hr: X1 0640 UT Aug14
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