SWPC issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch today for January 30th and January 31st. Potential Aurora activity from the Southern Hemisphere Coronal hole may happen any time between 7:00 PM Thursday night and 7:00pm Saturday evening Eastern time. The magnetosphere will be highly reactive to any potential disturbances – so any Earth-directed eruptions will increase aurora potential.
Two M-class flares, 15012802 and 15012806, erupted from AR 2268 today. Both were impulsive and did not produce CMEs.
Here are our top three tweets from January 28, 2015:
Changes in solar data (img1) = northern lights in response (img2). It is these types of events i study for the future pic.twitter.com/S1DbHxlmvD
— Dave Patrick (@wwxchaser) January 28, 2015
No big CMEs, but GOES proton flux increases below S1 level. Studying these events may be another PhD thesis topic. pic.twitter.com/q4tconwmtA
— Halo CME (@halocme) January 28, 2015
#sunspot 2268's M1.46-class #solarflare from last night in 131 and 193 Angstrom wavelengths. #GIF pic.twitter.com/tRta1lxTkV
— Sun Viewer (@SunViewer) January 28, 2015
Happy Hunting