A growing coronal hole is now rotating into an Earth-facing position, and it could soon unleash a powerful stream of high-speed solar wind directly into Earth’s magnetic field. What makes this stand out is that the opening appears to be expanding, raising the potential for […]
How late is our CME? Not that late, actually! The official forecast was always for the solar storm to impact close to sunrise for North American chasers. The yellow line is the current time. We are only three hours behind schedule and within the margin […]
As of this update, we are still waiting for signs of a CME that is expected to pass Earth today. ACE EPAM particle levels, although elevated, is not yet showing a sudden increase that would signal that the CME is getting closer. The solar wind […]
There has been quite the confusion about the arrival time of this CME! Here it is explicitly broken down by popular time zones. For North Americans, please note that when I say “Sunday night” in my posts, this INCLUDES Monday morning. Sunday night = June […]
The sun just launched another CME toward Earth. Minor (G1) to strong (G3) geomagnetic storms are possible when it arrives on June 8th. If the storm becomes strong, naked-eye auroras could spread across much of Europe, Canada, and at least a dozen northern-tier US states. […]
Just when everyone thinks the recent set of solar storm fizzles were all we were going to have this week, WHAM! Region 4461 fires a massive blast and launches a fast moving solar storm towards Earth. Looking closely at the region just before the eruption, […]
The NASA and NOAA model prediction runs show two possibilities: a fast, near direct hit (early June 😎 and a slower, near flanking blow (mid-day June 😎. It all depends upon how the coming storm interacts with the solar wind on its way to Earth. […]
