SPACE - S0 - 20201022 - Storm/Seismic Alert, Magnetic Shift, Magma
Good Morning, 0bservers!
We finally got the DISCOVR charts back after seven hours offline, and it showed some variability in the solar winds. It dropped to a low of 320 KPS around midday UTC, peaked 100 KPS higher ten hours later, and is currently in the 350-375 KPS range. Temperature and density are generally steady, and the Phi Angle seems to have stabilized after a few days all over the charts. The KP-Index did record a brief and minor storm with a KP-4 reading, but it immediately dropped back into the green zone. Still had a couple of KP-3 readings, but all the rest logged in at KP-1. The X-Ray Flux is a bit calmer than yesterday, in the low Class A flare range with no spikes or surges. The Northern coronal holes have grown since yesterday, extending into the lower latitudes and approaching the midpoint. The SOHO HMI Magnetogram shows the departing sunspot group in the South is decaying further, and the incoming bright spot up North does have some underlying surface magnetics but very disperse and disorganized. The lithosphere was far calmer than yesterday's report, and beyond a good handful of blot echo activity, there was only a Mag 5.2 SSW of Lithakia Greece, and a follow-up Mag 5.1 outside of Jiangyou China.
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