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Category: Solar Weather

Conditions remain poor on HF

An Extreme G4 Solar Storm Train, Eight Storms Race to Earth | Space Weather Spotlight 10 May 2024

The first solar storm in this train has hit! The storm is quite fast so the initial impact caused a momentary G4-level response.

Posted on May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 by Carl RatcliffePosted in Solar Weather

Major solar storm

After some good conditions on 10m and 12m in the last few days we now how a major geomagnetic storm:

Inter Planetary K Index (K=6 … yikes!)

Major Storm on 12 Oct

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index … very signals above 20m at the moment.

The storm was predicted here:


Posted on October 12, 2021October 12, 2021 by CarlPosted in Solar WeatherLeave a comment
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