Two Coronal Mass Ejections (12/16/2015)

Two coronal mass ejections to report today, both of which appear to have an Earth directed component. The first CME was the result of a C6.6 solar flare that I first reported on earlier this morning at 09:03 UTC (Dec 16, 2015). This CME appears to have faint full halo characteristics and could impact our planet by early this weekend. The second and somewhat brighter, full halo coronal mass ejection was the result of an eruptive event along a filament channel in the southeast quadrant beginning at 13:45 UTC.