Editing Weather of 2023 (section)

== Space weather ==
{{see also|Space weather}}
*January 9 – An [[Solar flare classification|X1.9-class]] [[solar flare]] causes a widespread radio blackout across [[South America|South]] and [[Central America]]. The sunspot that caused the solar flare also caused an X1.2-class solar flare on January 5.<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Tariq Malik |date=2023-01-09 |title=Huge solar flare erupts on the sun from 'hyperactive' sunspot |url=https://www.space.com/huge-solar-flare-eruption-hyperactive-sunspot |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Space.com |language=en |archive-date=2023-01-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110004926/https://www.space.com/huge-solar-flare-eruption-hyperactive-sunspot |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Meteorological phenomena on Mars observed by the Perseverance rover |journal=Nature Geoscience |year=2023 |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=8–9 |doi=10.1038/s41561-022-01085-z |bibcode=2023NatGe..16....8. |s2cid=255639639 |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01085-z |access-date=January 27, 2023 |archive-date=January 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127173734/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01085-z |url-status=live }}</ref>