NOAA – Coronal Mass Ejection To Impact Earth Tonight & Into Tomorrow!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. NOAA, Coronal Mass Ejection to Impact Earth Tonight and Into Tomorrow. Coronal Mass Ejection is currently inbound, expected to strike Earth today and into tomorrow. The forecast shows a G1 and possible G2 class geomagnetic storm that may last up to 15 hours. This CME was created by a measly C5.5-class solar flare on January 8, which hurled the CME almost directly towards Earth. NOAA forecasters expect it to arrive during the late hours of January 10 tonight, again sparking a G1 or possible G2-class geomagnetic storm that may last through January 11. Here's what the CME looks like. I'm going to show you all some models as well and the forecast itself. Jumping over to take a look at NOAA's KP Index forecast breakdown for January 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2026. Looks like that storm, well, we could see it as soon as maybe 2 p.m. today. Lasting into tomorrow, looking for a G1 light geomagnetic storm. Now, there's also a chance of a cannibal CME, which would bring this to a G2 geomagnetic storm, and I will show you their forecast on that as well. Now, this is very hard to see on the WSA in solar wind prediction. These are the two CMEs, and they believe that they'll join into one perhaps, and if they do, it could move this up to a G2 event. I'm going to read directly from NOAA's forecast here. This coronal mass ejection might be more potent than it looks. A NOAA model seen here shows it merging with another minor coronal mass ejection also launched on January 8th. We'll take a look at that in a second. If the two coronal mass ejections really do merge, they would form a cannibal coronal mass ejection, a type of storm cloud that punches well above its weight. Cannibal coronal mass ejections contain enhanced shock waves that do a good job igniting geomagnetic storms. Now let's take a look at that. All right, this is what we're looking at here. This 5.7, C5.7, and this is the second one that it might merge with its slower uh a C 4.45 or 4.5 here so it doesn't look like much on our GOES X-ray look at this baseline i haven't seen a baseline this low in several years that is a B3 baseline wow and to finish off their report actually i just thought i'd point this out But that is Mercury right there coming into the picture. High latitude skywatchers should be on the alert for auroras during the nights of January 10th and 11th. And I've been trying to, well, have a contest and have people take pictures. But we just haven't had a good geomagnetic storm in some weeks. Want to do a giveaway and have you guys vote on the best pictures. If that does occur tonight, please send in pictures to worldnewsreporttoday at gmail.com, and I'll announce when the contest will be. We'll have some really, really cool prizes, I promise you that. God bless. Please give us a thumbs up, please share, and always remember, anything's possible in the Bizarro World.