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This morning, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded a halo CME emerging from the vicinity of sunspot 1054: movie. The cloud appears to be heading toward Earth and it could spark geomagnetic storms when it arrives on or about March 17th. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. www.spaceweather.com...
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Besides preparing for St. Patrick’s Day festivities this morning, there were two more large earthquakes.
The probabilities for significant disturbances
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AURORA WATCH: A solar wind stream is heading for Earth, and so is a coronal mass ejection (CME). Together, they add up to a geomagnetic storm alert for March 17th and 18th. The impact of the solar wind plus CME will brighten Arctic skies already alive with Northern Lights:
Originally posted by Gouzze
Where is Phage on this one.... I am sure he will have a good answer for this.. Come to us PHAGE!!!! We need good answers...
A massive power failure h as plunged quake-hit Chile into darkness, stretching 2,000km (1,250 miles) and affecting up to 90% of the population. …Chile’s infrastructure was devastated by the quake on 27 February . The operators of the electricity grid said the blackout was caused by the failure of a high-voltage transformer about 700km south of the capital. Officials said the blackout was not directly related to the earthquake.
Geophysical Activity Forecast: The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels for the next two days (17-18 March) due to a coronal hole high-speed stream on day one and the arrival of partial halo CME arriving on day two. Geomagnetic activity levels are expected to return to quiet levels on day three (19 March).
A solar wind stream is heading for Earth, and so is a coronal mass ejection (CME)
During the spring and fall, GOES-14 experiences eclipses in which the Earth blocks the X-ray instrument view to the sun for short periods once each day. For spring 2010 this period will run from Feb. 27 to Apr. 12, 2010. Eclipses ranging from minutes to just over an hour occur around 0700 UT. At these times there will be a dip or gap in the XRS signal shown.