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SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005

by jwjohnson314 on 5/10/2024, 12:52:27 PM with 30 comments
  • by sukhavati on 5/10/2024, 2:00:32 PM

    I'm quite worried as I'm on a transatlantic flight during this event, and there have been 6 solar eruptions with at least 4 CMEs (NOAA not up to date with the enlil spiral just yet). Here are a couple useful links I'm using to keep track of this event: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center dashboards [1], FlightAware Flight Delays and Cancellations [2] and NOAA Global Positioning System Community Dashboard [3], Prof. Mathew Owens post [4]

    [1] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aviation-community-das... [2] https://www.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today [3] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/global-positioning-sys... [4] https://x.com/mathewjowens/status/1788655731471696372

  • by jwjohnson314 on 5/10/2024, 1:31:41 PM

    If you have a pair of eclipse glasses you may be able to see the sunspot cluster causing all the action with them, it’s enormous.

  • by webdoodle on 5/10/2024, 2:59:52 PM

    Tony Philips with NASA runs Spaceweather.com. Yesterday he posted a pic, with an overlay from the 1859 Carrington Event sunspot. They are the same size. Let that sink in.

    https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=09&month=05&...

  • by FL410 on 5/10/2024, 2:37:06 PM

    I am confused by the slide, which mentions in the first bullet point that this is the first "G4" since 2005, but in the last bullet point says there was one in March.

  • by ChrisArchitect on 5/10/2024, 4:51:18 PM

    [dupe]

    More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394

  • by mikewarot on 5/10/2024, 5:02:04 PM

    One of these days I'll see the Northern Lights.... somehow I don't think this will be it. 8(