Category Archives: Space Weather

Sun Spots 6-13-13

River of Sun Spots Emerging as Sun Rotates

As you can see in this image there are a number of sun spots that are in close proximity creating what looks like a river of sunspots crossing almost one…

CME 5/1/2013

Great view of CME as it Erupts from edge of Sun May 1, 2013

  On May 1, 2013 SDO captured this video of a coronal mass ejection (CME) as it erupted from the edge of the Sun. The actual time of the video…

CME Mercury

Two Large CMEs headed for Mercury

On April 24-25 2013,  two coronal mass ejections (CMEs) erupted from the sun. Moving at about 500 miles per second these solar phenomena,  capable of ejecting billions of tons of…

Strong Coronal Mass Ejection Hits Earth 3/17/13

The last few days have seen many space weather warnings and alerts. The root of all of these was activity on the sun resulting in a strong a coronal mass…

GEOMAGNETIC STORM Predicted 3/17. Auroras as low as New York

Update – NOAA predicts 70 percent chance of GEOMAGNETIC STORM March 17th A CME that left the sun on March 15th is expected to ompact Earth’s magnetic field on March…

Space Weather WARNING 3-15-13 – CME

UPDATE – Issue Time: 2013 Mar 15 1712 UTC WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G2 Predicted Highest Storm Level Predicted by Day: Mar 16: G1 (Minor) Mar 17: G2 (Moderate) Mar…

Amazing Video Shows Plasma Rain on Sun

In this amazing video you can see what in effect is rain on the sun, but it is the plasma dropping from the magnetic fields. On July 19, 2012, an…

Sunspot AR 1667 Unleashes C9 class Flare, CME could be Earth Directed

Update –  The CME is not directly headed for Earth but should give us a glancing blow on Feb. 8-9. Aurora watchers should be on alert for some possible good…