SPACE - S0 - 20201008 - Major Climate News, Super Flare Science, Last Chance
Good Morning, 0bservers!
Had a rise in solar wind speeds, from a low of almost 300 KPS at midday to a peak of nearly 420 KPS near midnight, with a current speed in the range of 360-380 KPS. Preceding this was a rise in particle density and temperature. The Phi Angle is a bit destabilized as well, but in spite of all this the KP-Index is still quite low, mostly KP-1 readings with a couple KP-2s in the mid-evening. There was a brief boost over the threshold for the Electron Flux, but X-Ray Flux readings continue to drop, nearly out of the Class A flare range. The video images from the Sun are showing some minor coronal hole development in the lower latitudes, and some small bright spots appearing in the Southern hemisphere at around 35°. Those bright spots are showing some minor magnetic complexity on the SDO HMI Magnetogram, so we have a higher potential for flare/ejection activity. We didn't have much beyond blot echo activity yesterday, although there was a Mag 5.1 temblor about 35 miles ESE of Cruz Bay, US Virgin Islands, and a Mag 5.0 quake about 70 miles NW of Olonkinbyen, Svalbard and Jan Mayen (sounds like a Swedish law firm...).
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