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“D” region Prediction

With a broad range of user groups that range from the aviation community, to satellite programs, to general enthusiasts like pigeon racers and aurora watchers, SWPC’s web page offers each of these user groups a dashboard specific to the data sets and information that affects them.

The electric power grid, and consequently the power to your home and business, can be disrupted by space weather. One of the great discoveries of the 19th century was the realization that a time-varying magnetic field is able to produce an electrical current in a conducting wire. The basic idea is that the time rate of change of the magnetic flux (i.e. lines of magnetic force) passing through a current loop is proportional to the current that

Space Weather Impacts On Climate

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SEVERE GEOMAGNETIC STORM–THE STRONGEST IN YEARS: As predicted, a CME struck Earth’s magnetic field on March 24th (1437 UT). The impact opened a crack in our planet’s magnetosphere and sparked a severe G4-class geomagnetic storm–the strongest geomagnetic storm since Sept. 2017.

The timing of the CME did *not* favor observers in Europe or the United States. Instead, New Zealand got the light show:

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What is a polar vortex?

Recommended: Amy Butler writes a great Polar Vortex Blog for NOAA. Check it out!

POLAR VORTEX

THE POLAR VORTEX WOBBLED IN DECEMBER: Last month, sky watchers in Europe saw something rare and beautiful. A giant bank of polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) escaped the Arctic Circle, and for more than a week they filled skies with rainbow color as far south as Italy. In the Italian comune of Sanfrè (latitude +45N), Pablo Javier Lucero was able to photograph the clouds at all hours of the day:

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lacy network of halos and arcs:

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So you think you know what a comet is

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Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.

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