CLASS X-6.9!!! Here we come with the FORCE! SOLAR CYCLE 24!!

Sun is starting up the X CLASS FLARES NOW!!

(CBS News)  

An extremely powerful solar flare, the largest in over four years, rocked the sun early Tuesday (Aug. 9)

"It was a big flare," said Joe Kunches, a space scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Space Weather Prediction Center. "We lucked out because the site of the eruption at the sun was not facing the Earth, so we will probably feel no ill effects."

Today's solar flare began at 3:48 a.m. EDT (0748 GMT), and was rated a class X6.9 on the three-class scale scientists use to measure the strength of solar flares. The strongest type of solar eruption is class X, while class C represents the weakest and class M flares are medium-strength events.

BREAKING: MAJOR CME/FLARE CLASS X?? CHARGED PROTON STORM Early hours of 8-4-11

I guess every is still sleeping because in all the world I can't find another person reporting on this.
A few hours ago a MAJOR MAJOR flare occured, looking to be MUCH larger then the M.6 or M.9 which just happened. Now we have the proton flux chart going way up and charged particles all over the current SOHO C3!

It's going to be a wild day for reporting and gathering data. Have fun folks. Here's my catches.

This pretty much JUST happened, so let me throw it in slow motion and get some videos done... be right back!