Justin Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Just saw a big CME has happened and a strong geomagnetic storm may be about to occur. The local NWS here in Davenport just put something on their homepage saying it may effect air traffic and power grids. Interesting.... Anyways, watch the sky tonight and tomorrow night if it happens to be clear, which here it is unfortunately not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Too bad we're socked in now. The GFS has the cloudcover breaking up after 6z, while the NAM holds on to low clouds all night (at least here anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Strong radiation storm in progress, almost severe. http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ace/SIS_7d.html http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/NOAAscales/index.html#SolarRadiationStorms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Is it clearing over Madison? Still all clouds here... http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/wisc/ Not sure when/if I clear out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Supposed to be cloudy all night here. Would be nice to get the clouds to break up some later. Right now the Aurora isn't too active with most of the activity above 60°. Spaceweather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 It's not hitting until tomorrow so don't worry about aurora tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 It's not hitting until tomorrow so don't worry about aurora tonight. Sounds like it will be going quite strong tonight still. Local newscasters have been telling everyone to watch out for it tonight. Should be mostly clear until very late in the night around Chicago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Posted January 24, 2012 Author Share Posted January 24, 2012 Don't forget to post here any reports if you see them. Or post pics if you get some as well. Story on the national news on NBC upcoming too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Michiganders don't see the aurora until summer. Lake clouds= no chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 Looks like most of Scandanavia and maybe even Scotland are seeing them right now. The image I posted above updates about every 15 minutes. Spaceweather.com has great information on this event! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 We are at Kp=6 so the northern fringe of the Midwest will see aurora where it's clear: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/wingkp/wingkp_15m_24h.gif Kp=7,8 is what we need for good aurora in the rest of the Midwest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I'm waiting for something like this: On September 1–2, 1859, the largest recorded geomagnetic storm occurred. Aurorae were seen around the world, most notably over the Caribbean; also noteworthy were those over the Rocky Mountains that were so bright that their glow awoke gold miners, who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning.[4] According to professor Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, "people in the northeastern U.S. could read newspaper print just from the light of the aurora."[5] Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases even shocking telegraph operators.[6] Telegraph pylons threw sparks and telegraph paper spontaneously caught fire.[7] Some telegraph systems appeared to continue to send and receive messages despite having been disconnected from their power supplies.[8] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 580 km/s! BOOM it's here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder Road Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Is there any time for best viewing, or basically all night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Solar wind speed slowly rising, above 600 km/s. http://www.swpc.noaa..._SWEPAM_2h.html Bz just went negative... Note there is ~45 minutes of lag between when the solar wind stream hits ACE at L1, and when it gets to Earth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm8 Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 K index down to 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Bz just hit the lowest point of the event so far, aurora are gonna happen soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Clear and dark here. Couldn't really be better, but I don't see anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Clear and dark here. Couldn't really be better, but I don't see anything. Based on the speed of it no one will see anything for another 20 minutes or so. We'll know when it hits with the 15 minute Kp data. You might be too far south regardless for this, I think it might just scrape the border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eekuasepinniW Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 580 km/s! BOOM it's here. as noted in the other thread, the proton storm rendered the solar wind speed sensor useless. it's just now able to finally report data... the cme arrived nearly 12 hours ago and this event is pretty much over. Bz just hit the lowest point of the event so far, aurora are gonna happen soon. Not with a Bt of 7. Maybe a really long exposure photograph will show a faint glow along the horizon, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtlehurricane Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 as noted in the other thread, the proton storm rendered the solar wind speed sensor useless. it's just now able to finally report data... the cme arrived nearly 12 hours ago and this event is pretty much over. Not with a Bt of 7. Maybe a really long exposure photograph will show a faint glow along the horizon, though. The Bz measurements weren't blacked out though, were they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddylonglegs Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Skies were crap here when I was out last. I'm not seeing crap no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geos Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 I think the Aurora's were on the decline, by the time night fell in North America. Folks in Central to Northern Canada probably saw them. Best time to see the Northern Lights is late summer typically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wishforsnow Posted January 25, 2012 Share Posted January 25, 2012 Michiganders don't see the aurora until summer. Lake clouds= no chance. Clouds here too. Too bad Auroras look cooler with fresh snow on the ground. But luckily the first full winter I lived here got to see a real good Aurora. It just took my breath away. It cover the whole sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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