From the WUWT Solar Reference page, an X 1.2 event has occurred:
![Xray[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/xray1.gif)
From NASA Spaceweather:
Giant sunspot AR1944 erupted on Jan 7th at approximately 1832 UT, producing a powerful X1-class solar flare. First-look coronagraph images from the STEREO-Ahead spacecraft appear to show a coronal mass ejection (CME) emerging from the blast site. If so, the CME is almost certainly heading for Earth. Stay tuned for updates as more data arrive from the NASA-ESA Heliophysics Fleet.
One of the biggest sunspots in years is crossing the center of the solar disk, putting Earth in the way of potential eruptions. Rocky Raybell photographed the active region named “AR1944” yesterday from his backyard in Keller, Washington:
The sprawling sunspot contains dozens of dark cores, the largest big enough to swallow Earth three times over.
Here is the latest SDO image:
![latest_512_4500[1]](http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/latest_512_45001.jpg?quality=83)
This graphic from Tamitha Skov
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Can’t disagree with the oft-repeated coincidence of different papers that end up on opposite sides of issues/causes/effects. “One swallow does not a summer make.” – Carrington? Discerning the truth is an ongoing battle, isn’t it?
Thankfully this X-flare episode occured during Bz north conditions. I beleive it is responsible for the warm-up we are seeing across the southern US moving northward.
@ur momisugly Bob Weber
Sorry for the delay…it is the time zone difference..
You may be interested in the following:
http://www.salzburg.gv.at/cherry_schumann_resonances.pdf
http://chronobiology.ru/wp-content/uploads/BiologistFH.pdf
and another quotation:
“Halberg’s research on the body’s rhythms documented that cycles characterizing solar wind, sunspots, and geomagnetic storms could have a more important effect on our bodies than the alternation of the seasons. For example, fatal heart attacks follow about a 10.5- year cycle in Minnesota in keeping with the solar activity.”
http://www.msi.umn.edu/~halberg/FaTime.pdf
Best regards,
Linda
Leif,
I was looking for an example of a picture of the sun in a quadrupole constellation. This should, I thought, be found in the period between June 2012 and July 2013, after the reversal of the magnetic fields at the North Pole in 2012. According to me, I had to look for magnetic field lines of the same color at the North Pole and the South Pole. However, I could not find such pictures, neither in the NASA video, presented in http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/30/msm-finally-gets-that-the-suns-magnetic-field-has-flipped/, nor using the interesting tool you mentioned (http://sdowww.lmsal.com/sdomedia/SunInTime/webgl_tool/solar_viewer/?date=20140106).
Could you indicate a day when the quadrupole is rather clearly visible in the tool?
rikgheysens says:
January 12, 2014 at 2:25 am
Could you indicate a day when the quadrupole is rather clearly visible in the tool?
As the polar fields are very weak right now and almost impossible to measure with precision as they are transverse to the line-of-sight it will be very difficult [impossible?] to find clear-cut examples.