2014-09-10 23:18 UTC Recent R3 Solar Flare
Active Region 2158, now near center disk, produced a X1 (NOAA Scale R3 - Strong) solar flare today at 10/1745 UTC (Sep 10th at 01:45pm EDT). Impacts to HF radio communications on the daylight side of Earth lasted for a little more than an hour.
Initial information suggests that CME is likely associated with this event, however, further analysis is underway at this time.
Standby for more details.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html