As I guess I shared a similar experience with many last night for the first time watching the Northern Lights I just wondered if the stereotypical swirling and flickering Northern Lights we see on TV usually is time lapsed photography or does it sometimes really move so aggressively?

If I stared at the sky it seemed very still but there was obviously some gentle movement bit like how clouds might pass, if you look away and look back you can tell they’re different but changing slowly

Seems like another CME few hours ago on STEREO A Coronagraph at around 03:00 UTC.

It's available at https://spaceweather.io/ and it's still work in progress, I have some more improvements planned. But hopefully people find this useful.

There's nothing on it that you wouldn't otherwise be able to find on SWPC, but my aim is to condense the info so that everything fits on a screen, and it keeps it up-to-date if you leave the page open.

It shows an overview of current conditions:

https://preview.redd.it/ywl057n0nrzc1.png?width=2948&format=png&auto=webp&s=361749b1ee46d6a85afeb211642e9f5702ffc34c

And history of past data (back to April 20, which is when i first started it up):

https://preview.redd.it/0vy6n0peorzc1.png?width=2948&format=png&auto=webp&s=0785f6c275f3f0dba55b6cafe720cdefcc229ab5

Does the red and green represent the chance to see an aurora directly overhead, or the chance to see an aurora at all? I ask because the "view line" is so much further south than the red and green areas.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental

Figured since we’re nearing the maximum of the solar cycle, I’d share alerts I’m getting of 7+ alerts when possible here. Copied and pasted from the email sent a half hour ago:

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK07 Serial Number: 141 Issue Time: 2024 May 02 1803 UTC

ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7 Threshold Reached: 2024 May 02 1759 UTC Synoptic Period: 1500-1800 UTC

Active Warning: Yes NOAA Scale: G3 - Strong

NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation

Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible, false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices. Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may occur. Navigation - Intermittent satellite navigation (GPS) problems, including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur. Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent. Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.

I sometimes receive messages from NOAA detailing space weather alerts.

For example, today I received one with the code: WARSUD

I cannot seem to find a description of that code on the NOAA website. Can someone point me to a description of what that means?

Thanks in advance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giVqceEzj_E

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Measurements of the Earth's magnetic field strength and direction were recorded on photographic paper for the solar storm of September 1859 (the Carrington Event) and the lesser known precursor storm of August 1859. These have been digitized and converted to SI values for further analysis.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023SW003807

Hello friends! I have created a bot that will scrape spaceweather.com and update discord server with the latest posts on there.

I also have another bot that scrapes swpc.noaa.gov and checks the latest observed tabs for any change in solar weather (R,S, and G values)

Is there any interest in making these public? You would get notifications via discord, and it checks every 2 minutes.

https://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810/files/APEP_litho.pdf

If the earth's demise is inevitable, as it will eventually become so hot the earth's oceans will boil. Then all gasses gassed off through greenhouse effect. Eventually left a barrel molten rock. Then onto be swallowed by the sun or something like that. It's possible other planets were already inhabited and already met such fate. Like idk mars?

When this near X-flare happened today, I had an ice pick migraine in my right temple, the typical local for solar weather induced migraine. The flare appeared on charts a few minutes later. I have documented dozens of these events over the past years, careful to not falsely confirm my bias of correlation, and now am 100% certain of causation. Heliobiology is the 100-year old science studying the adverse human health effects of solar weather. Anyone else interested in this topic?is your tinnitus very loud right now? 6:45pm EST 3/30/24.

I live in Jonesboro Georgia and I really want to the Solar eclipse. I know it won't be a total eclipse but I still want to see it nonetheless, will I be able to see and is the some sort of website that can help me.

Hi everyone! I'm a bit new to following space weather, but I just noticed that at 3/24 at around 0440 UTC, all of the SUVI images went totally blank. Is this from the recent CME reaching the satellite that captures these images?

Thanks!

Solar sensitive people, buckle up. #heliobiology