For those readers who think the Sun is an unchanging light in the sky and nothing more, Spaceweather.com has an alarming report:
MAJOR X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE: Earth orbiting satellites have just detected a major X-class solar flare from sunspot AR2887 (following two lesser M-flares described below. The blast at 1535 UT on Oct. 28th created a massive tsunami of plasma in the sun’s atmosphere and almost certainly hurled a CME toward Earth. Stay tuned for images and updates about this event.
I should imagine the impact of the hypothesized CME would take a couple of days. Let’s hope it does little to no damage, otherwise we’ll have Republican ignoramuses trying to blame it on Biden. Here’s a NASA pic of a solar flare from 2014:
