The sunspot number is crashing! With the departure of the giga-ARs, all we have left is AR 4482, which thankfully seems to be healthy, and meager AR 4485 which is struggling to survive. At least we have the Earth-facing coronal hole to keep us awake, […]
Intense Coronal Hole is now earth facing And will increase the Solar winds for Earth in about 48 hours. ⚠️ Minor geomagnetic instability continues. But our #sun has calmed down a bit. ⚠️ NEW sunspot region will have some potential. Michael Milks
A coronal hole is directly facing Earth now. We may see enhanced geomagnetic activity in the next 2-3 days as the high-speed solar wind flowing out of this region passes over Earth. I wouldn’t expect anything higher than G1-G2 (Kp 5-6) storming from this, but […]
Today was a nice break compared to yesterday – no Geomagnetic Storms, Solar Wind Speed back in the 400 km/sec range, Electron and Proton Saturation were calm. . Solar Flares were the only thing bothering us today, and there were plenty! Most of them were […]
A low-level M-flare is occurring from AR 4479 now approaching the western limb… further low-level M-flares are expected as this region eventually rotates from our view over the next couple days. The eastern limb AR 4482 which generated the X1.3 yesterday is more interesting. Vincent […]
Ok, it’s been a busy day! I put together some charts for y’all tonight, partly to make things a bit easier to understand, partly to save myself some typing! Lol . Let’s start with appeasing concerns – while NOAA is forecasting Geomagnetic Storms for the […]
Holy moly. X1.3 flare from a NEW region just rotating over the eastern limb. The Sun is NOT stopping, and we have a new flare player to watch, now. Unfortunately, the region is not in a location to produce any CME that could affect Earth. […]
