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Although I haven't seen any reports of large-scale impacts, for several hours this morning I had technical difficulties with Google Blogger, and there are reports of sporadic network outages and glitches around the world.
While (severe) G4 level geomagnetic storms were forecast by NOAA, on at least 3 occasions (see chart below) overnight G5 (extreme levels) were reached.
Two more X-class flares have been recorded over the past 12 hours, and while the active region (3664) is approaching the limb of the sun, some part of those CMEs appear to be earth directed.
Additional flares are possible, and while this sunspot group will soon depart the earth-facing side of the sun, eruptions over the next day or two could still be geo-effective. In the meantime, we still have 4 or 5 CMEs on the way, and another 24-48 hours of strong-to-severe space weather ahead.
