Earth-Facing sunspot approximately half the size of the spot that caused the Carrington Event, which is very significant. here’s the data from Spaceweather.com:
SOLAR WIND STORM IN PROGRESS: Earth has entered a stream of fast-moving solar wind with gusts reaching 700 km/s (1.6 million mph). G1-class geomagnetic storms and high latitude auroras are possible on May 3rd. Aurora alerts: SMS Text
A VERY BIG SUNSPOT: How big is it? Sunspot 4079 is, by far, the biggest sunspot of 2025. It stretches 140,000 km across the solar disk and covers an area equal to 50% of Carrington’s sunspot in 1859. Amateur astronomer Eduardo Schaberger Poupeau of Rafaela, Argentina, peered into the sunspot’s dark heart on May 2nd, and this is what he saw:
The two jet-black cores are each large anough to swallow Earth. They are bristling with hair-like solar fibrils as much as 20 thousand km long. Fibrils are, essentially, magnetic tubes that guide hot plasma in and out of the sunspot. When they start to wave back and forth, it means the sunspot is becoming unstable and about to erupt. Videos of the sunspot show dynamic activity within these structures.
Any solar flares this weekend will be geoeffective as the giant sunspot turns toward Earth.
Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 4.00 unsettled
24-hr max: Kp= 4.67 unsettled
explanation | more data
| Geomagnetic Storms: Probabilities for significant disturbances in Earth’s magnetic field are given for three activity levels: active, minor storm, severe storm  Updated at: 2025 May 03 2200 UTCMid-latitudes0-24 hr 24-48 hr ACTIVE 35 % 35% MINOR 20 % 20 % SEVERE 05 % 05 % High latitudes 0-24 hr 24-48 hr ACTIVE 10 % 10 % MINOR 30 % 30 % SEVERE 50 % 50 % |
Solar flare alerts: SMS Text
What happened in Spain, Portugal and Southern France may be just the beginning. MH
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