SPACE - S0 - 20210227 - Ice Break, Lightning Surge, Galactic Record Breaker
Good Morning, 0bservers!
Remember yesterday when I mentioned how the Phi Angle had finally stabilized after days of wild readings? Well, the Phi Angle heard that and said "hold my beer", because after just 12 hours of seeming calm, it decided to pretend to be the interference you get from a blender with a dodgy electric motor. And the rest of the DSCOVR chart joined in on the fun, with the shift forcing a jump in Particle Density, which was PRECEDED by a jump (albeit mild) in solar wind speeds from 400 KPS to 460 KPS. It had a jagged pattern for about six hours before it decided to "stabilize" (and I'm being generous here) into a downward arch starting about 2000 UTC and then intensifying the curve after midnight UTC, all the way back down to where it hit its low - 400 KPS. Talk about goin' nowhere fast! Oddly enough, the Temperature dropped about the same time the Particle Density rose, then dropping significantly about three hours later. This activity really didn't do diddly (yes, that is a scientific term) to the KP-Index, which stayed in the green all day and night. KP-3s were predominant yesterday, but we're seeing a bit of a calming there as it transitions to KP-2 readings. The GOES Magnetometer had a wild high yesterday, topping out the chart at nearly 150 nanoTeslas, but its drop afterward still stayed above the threshold. Electron Flux readings breached the threshold again during the day (odd, that normally does that on our night-side, go figure) but it has returned to its normal position. The Proton Flux, sadly, remains the Tommy Newsom of our chart collection (Google it, kids!). X-Ray Flux readings are calming a bit as the background radiation has gone back below the Class B flare line. Only two small flares of note, neither reaching the middle of that Class B range. The large coronal hole in the South is now passing central heliographic longitude (fancy science speak for "the middle") but a new Southern coronal hole system is developing about two to three days behind. The flares mentioned earlier seem to be coming from the first of the departing sunspots in the North, with some minor sparking and surging activity noted there. One more thing. I normally don't report the ENLIL Spiral charts which show CME discharges, but this one is a bit unusual. The one on the SpaceWeatherNews.com site does show a CME coming out from the Sun, well ahead of our orbit (so no risk to Earth). However, the one on the NOAA site shows no such ejection. It's just weird how they don't seem to match...
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