On the night of Thursday, October 16, astronomers recorded three flares of the penultimate power class M on the Sun. This was reported by the press service of the "Institute of Applied Geophysics named after Academician E. K. Fedorov" (FSBI "IPG")
On October 16, at 01:28 Moscow time, an M2.7 flare was recorded with a duration of 51 minutes. At 02:45 Moscow time, an M2.4 flare was recorded with a duration of 15 minutes. At 03:21 Moscow time, an M1.1 flare was recorded with a duration of 7 minutes.
The flares occurred within the same group of sunspots.
Strong flares on the Sun have resumed contrary to forecasts since October 13. The response of geomagnetic indices is expected from Thursday.
