{"id":57344,"date":"2024-10-05T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/maintenance.html\/?p=57344"},"modified":"2024-10-05T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:00:33","slug":"sun-ejects-earth-directed-x9-0-class-solar-flare-largest-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=57344","title":{"rendered":"Sun Ejects Earth-Directed X9.0-Class Solar Flare, Largest In Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Solar_Flare_Effects.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Flare Effects\" width=\"1214\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Solar_Flare_Effects.jpg 1214w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Solar_Flare_Effects-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Solar_Flare_Effects-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Solar_Flare_Effects-768x592.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Today&#8217;s incredible X9.0-class solar flare, the most intense flare since 2017. An Earth-directed solar storm is highly likely, given the spot region is faced directly at Earth,&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>Space Weather Watch wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/sun-burps-second-biggest-solar-flare-cycle-25-impact-analysis-says-earthbound-weekend\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/sun-burps-second-biggest-solar-flare-cycle-25-impact-analysis-says-earthbound-weekend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Today&#8217;s incredible X9.0-class solar flare, the most intense flare since 2017. An Earth-directed solar storm is highly likely, given the spot region is faced directly at Earth,&#8221;\u00a0Space Weather Watch wrote on X. https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/sun-burps-second-biggest-solar-flare-cycle-25-impact-analysis-says-earthbound-weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57346,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57344\/revisions\/57346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}