The effects of today's solar flare has come and gone, but here's a new brief introduction to propagation that may help those new to understanding the interaction of solar storms on the ionosphere. Storms From the Sun | NASA. HTH.
Wow, that's a scene.. Are my demensios off by assuming some of those --bursts-- are bigger than the Earth? If I read it right, those flares burst outward 10--50,000 miles? We then get the remnents?