SWPC (NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center) has extended the G1 Geomagnetic storm watch to 72 hours. It now runs from 7:00pm Friday night EST through 7:00pm EST Monday night. This means there is a chance for KP=5 on each of the next three days. Here’s the watches/warnings graphic from SWPC:
KP isn’t expected to pick up until late in the first day of the watch period. The best opportunities for aurora will be right at the beginning of the uptick in solar wind speed as the solar sector boundary passes earth, then again later after the high wind speedand density has been impacting the geomagnetosphere for an extended period of time.
In today’s featured tweet, we toot our own horn a little. This shows the current coronal hole on the last rotation (when it produced 4 days of enhanced geomagnetic activity) and on this rotation. Doesn’t look much different, does it?
Look familiar? Southern coronal hole pointed toward Earth again, last time: 4 days of #aurora and high solar wind pic.twitter.com/YeiogOeQKE
— Northern Lights Now (@NorthLightAlert) February 28, 2015