Solar Update: ... a little Deja Vu?

The past 48 hours have definitely had a ring of Deja Vu going on in the realms of  our finicky Sun.


After weeks of silence, old spots 1944 & 1946- now renumbered 1967 & 1968- have almost rotated into direct Earth facing view and once again, we're in the middle of yet another epic light show!


 In the past 72 hours approximately, we've had 12 M Class flares according to Solarham, and yet Watchers is telling us that there have been 17 M Class flares ALL from spot 1967, between 1am Feb first and 9am Feb second, plus an assortment of C Class flares from both 1967 & 1968.  1967 is currently Beta Gamma Delta, and 1968 is Beta Gamma.



Watchers notes 3 CMEs that have also been observed:

Three Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) were observed in SOHO/LASCO C2 imagery beginning at 09:48 UTC off the north, east, and southwest limbs. The CME to the southwest appears to correlate with a backsided filament eruption seen in STEREO A EUVI 195 imagery beginning at 08:25 UTC today.

http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2014/02/02/series-of-moderate-eruptions-and-cmes-region-1967-approaching-center-of-the-disk/

EName	Start	Stop	Peak	GOES Class	Derived Position
gev_20140127_0105	2014/01/27 01:05:00	01:39:00	01:22:00	M1.0	S16E88 ( 1967 )
gev_20140127_0202	2014/01/27 02:02:00	02:18:00	02:11:00	M1.1	S13E88 ( 1967 )
gev_20140127_2205	2014/01/27 22:05:00	22:15:00	22:10:00	M4.9	S14E88 ( 1967 )
gev_20140128_0402	2014/01/28 04:02:00	04:13:00	04:09:00	M1.5	S14E88 ( 1967 )
gev_20140128_0725	2014/01/28 07:25:00	07:34:00	07:31:00	M3.6	S10E75 ( 1967 )
gev_20140128_1134	2014/01/28 11:34:00	11:41:00	11:38:00	M1.4	S10E72 ( 1967 )
gev_20140128_1233	2014/01/28 12:33:00	12:50:00	12:46:00	M1.3	S15E79 ( 1967 )
gev_20140128_1524	2014/01/28 15:24:00	15:30:00	15:26:00	M3.5	S13E88 ( 1967 )
gev_20140128_1900	2014/01/28 19:00:00	19:46:00	19:40:00	M4.9	S14E75 ( 1967 )
gev_20140128_2204	2014/01/28 22:04:00	22:20:00	22:16:00	M2.6	S14E74 ( 1967 )
gev_20140130_0633	2014/01/30 06:33:00	06:44:00	06:39:00	M2.1	S14E54 ( 1967 )
gev_20140130_0754	2014/01/30 07:54:00	08:41:00	08:11:00	M1.1	S11E54 ( 1967 )
gev_20140130_1548	2014/01/30 15:48:00	16:28:00	16:11:00	M6.6	S11E64 ( 1967 )
gev_20140201_0119	2014/02/01 01:19:00	01:38:00	01:25:00	M1.0	S10E26 ( 1967 )
gev_20140201_0714	2014/02/01 07:14:00	07:45:00	07:23:00	M3.0	S10E22 ( 1967 )
gev_20140202_0717	2014/02/02 07:17:00	08:29:00	08:20:00	M2.2	S11E13 ( 1967 )
gev_20140202_0924	2014/02/02 09:24:00	09:36:00	09:31:00	M4.4	S10E14 ( 1967 )

 NOAA has upgraded the risks to 80% for M Class (snort!) and 50% for an X Class flare.


Now here is where the "Deja Vu" enters the picture.  If you will remember to the last time old spot 1944 & 46 were almost directly earth facing, they were putting on a grand light show:

On Wed I published a Solar Update HERE, mostly focused on the X class flare from spot 1944 and the predicted upcoming geomagnetic storm caused by the CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) generated by the X Flare.

"NOAA is giving a risk 80% of M Class and 50% of X Class flares for today.... I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I give it 100% chance of an MClass flare today from 1944/6, and I expect we'll see 1946 evolve into Beta Gamma Delta in the next 24-48 hours as well.  We also have a good size Coronal Hole currently rotating into direct Earth View- the Solar Wind stream from that should reach earth Jan 12/13th."

....As I said in an earlier post a little while back about solar activity- for two years I have watched the same thing happen over and over again:  a major sun spot, throwing off huge flares, rotates into geoeffective Earth view and suddenly.... it just fizzles out.  Goes silent.  Then as it rotates around the western limb, then POW  it flares up again.  

Same thing again this week.  Spot 1944 should of continued with strong M and even X Class flares.  It was so close to 1943 that they were almost touching.....  The fact that NOAA gave a risk of  90% for M Class and 50% for X Class flares, shows that that IS what should of happened.  And it didn't.  Instead, everything just went silent.

That is a quote from my Jan 11th 2014 article HERE

Sound familiar?  AGAIN?!?   AGAIN?!  I'm thinking that we are stuck in some sort of strange solar Ground Hog day loop, where the same solar events just keep repeating in the same pattern, as if stuck in a time vortex....

Well, yesterday was ground hog day again my friends....  the question is:  Will Sol repeat the same performance again this time around?   If it does I might just join Sol in a good ol' fashion tantrum instead of just questioning.


Oh and did I mention?  Just like last time round, we've also got a nice good sized coronal hole rotating into view as well.






I don't know about you guys, but I'm beginning to feel a lot like Bill Murray.....