[Regnum] The scale of the highest-class solar flare is exaggerated in the information space, since in fact it is an ordinary strong flare. This was stated on Sunday, May 25, by geophysicist, leading researcher at the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Zhigalin in a conversation with IA Regnum.
Employees of the Institute of Applied Geophysics (FGBU "IGP") named after Fyodorov reported that a flare of the highest class X was recorded on the Sun. According to scientists, in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 4098 (S05W22) a flare X1.1 was registered, which lasted for 17 minutes.
"I looked at this flare. It is a little, so to speak, exaggerated in the information field. It is not the biggest. It is two points away from a super flare. This is an ordinary strong flare. I would even say moderate from the point of view of geophysics," the expert said.
The effect of such a flare will be reflected on Earth, but only after some time, the specialist said. He specified that in about five to eight days the planet's geomagnetic field will be disturbed.
"There are people who experience all this calmly, and there are people who are very magnetically sensitive. They, of course, feel a little worse, they feel these processes on themselves. But there are those who do not react to anything," Zhigalin said.
In conclusion, the expert added that the flash that was recorded is a normal phenomenon for the Sun, as it lives its own life. Such an event certainly does not cause any panic, but rather resembles an everyday conversation.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Earth is now completely immersed in plasma flowing out of the coronal hole on the Sun, which is currently the main factor influencing the geomagnetic field. This was announced on May 18 by the solar astronomy laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics.
Neuropsychologist and psychotherapist Natalia Naumova said that people whose nervous system is more vulnerable suffer the most from magnetic storms. According to her, these are people with mental disorders, the elderly, small children, as well as children with developmental disabilities and various pathologies.