SPACE - S0 - 20201002 - Space Science, Earth's Magnetic Flip Review
Good Morning, 0bservers!
Have to admit I'm a bit surprised. I really thought those coronal hole streams would have impacted by now, but the solar wind speeds spent all of yesterday going down instead of up. The peak of 560 KPS occurred right after midnight UTC yesterday, dropping down below 500 KPS by mid-evening, and now in the 480-520 KPS range. Particle density and temperature had also been going down most of the day, but actually jumped up a bit in mid-evening. If that's the vanguard of the coming storm, the storm must be stuck in traffic. Or, perhaps it missed the planet entirely, going North of our orbital position. The KP-Index has been mostly in the green zone, but we did get a KP-4 (yellow) just before midday. The Electron Flux remains high, the X-Ray Flux is riding the higher end of the Class A flare range, and the Phi Angle looks like it's been run through a blender. The videos showed a small coronal hole developing at about the same latitude as the departing bright spot, but it's already passed the midpoint. We only had four blot echoes since yesterday's report, one of them a Mag 6.0 about 60 miles West of Papua New Guinea (and about 65 miles deep). Oops, looks like the lithosphere is trying to make a liar out of me - a late-breaking Mag 5.8 in the South Shetland Islands.
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