What an amazing link! Extinction protocol is always giving the hard facts about CME's and solar storms
Extinctionprotocol/ SPACE - A coronal mass ejection (CME)
blasted away from the sun this morning with rare speed: 2900 km/s.
CMEs moving this fast occur only once every 5 to 10 years. The Solar
and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud’s emergence on July
23rd starting around 0300 UT: The source of the CME was sunspot AR1520,
which sparked many bright auroras earlier this month when it was on
the Earthside of the sun. Now, however, the active region is transiting
the sun’s farside, so this blast was not geoeffective. One can only
imagine the geomagnetic storms such a fast CME could produce if it were
heading our way. Stay tuned for additional analysis. –Space Weather
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