SPACE - S0 - 20200829 - First Solar Storm, Missions to Monitor the Sun
Good Morning, 0bservers!
The coronal hole streams from midweek have finally arrived at Earth, with a rise in plasma density preceding the jump in solar wind speeds. Midday saw the winds first increase to around 500 KPS, but after a brief lull it rose further to a high of 540 KPS. Current speeds are back in the 500-520 KPS range. Temps also rose about the same time as the particle density, but that has remained steady at that elevated level. That initial rise created a geomagnetic storm (the first of Cycle 25) all the way up to KP-5, but it immediately dropped back into the KP-2 to KP-3 range, with a KP-4 coming in just before this report. And we're seeing another coronal hole in the upper Norther latitudes passing the midpoint, and it will continue to present a hole toward us for the next 18 hours (unless the tail of the hole collapses). The X-Ray flux remained calm, and there were no visual eruptions from the various bright spot groups. The Solar Visual images, though, still show no actual underlying sunspots, but you can barely make out some lighter filaments on the surface that indicate some magnetic instability. In the shake 'n' quake zone, apparently New Zealand is suffering again from a crippling shortage of sheep's bladders as they suffer a Mag 5.5 about 70 miles North of Maketu. We also had a Mag 5.3 in one of new new favorite unknown places on the planet, the delightful archipelago of Alo, Wallis and Futana (sounds like a foreign law firm).
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