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For Space Weather Enthusiasts

“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.

Space Weather Impacts On Climate

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THE SOLAR WIND HAS ARRIVED: A stream of solar wind flowing from a large hole in the sun’s atmosphere is buffeting Earth’s magnetosphere, setting the stage for possible geomagnetic storms. NOAA forecasters predict a G2-class event on April 22nd. Sky watchers across Canada and northern-tier US states from New York to Washington should be alert for auroras. Aurora alerts: SMS Text.

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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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Van Allen Probe observationshttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/ten-highlights-from-nasa-s-van-allen-probes-mission

lacy network of halos and arcs:

Earth sails the solar system in a ship of its own making: the mhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/themis-researchers-find-standing-waves-at-edge-of-earth-magnetic-bubbleagnetosphere,

So you think you know what a comet is

https://spaceweathergallery.com/aurora_gallery.html

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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NOAA 27 DAY FORECAST

RENO CW/HAMS GROUP

JACKS #2

605 N. Wells ave; Reno, Nv

IN MEMORY OF RON POTTER AG1P NOW SK.

ANNOUCEMENTS

RENO CW/HAM GROUP Meeting

Location at Jack’s Café #2 at Sixth St. & N Wells

The meetings are held in the back room.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

grounding in poor soil

At 11:00 AM on 7.045 MHZ.

SHOW AND TELL

Also check out the clubs WEB page w7fst.net

Ed/WD7Y

Next cw net

Watch for meeting announcement/reminder to be posted later.

 Hope to see you all next month.

Ed/WD7Y

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