Earth Just Hit By The X Flare's CME & Is In A Geomagnetic Storm!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, a geomagnetic storm is now underway. As predicted, a co-rotating interaction region, a CIR, hit Earth's magnetic field today. It might have been amplified by the flank of a coronal mass ejection arriving at the same time. The impact sparked a G1-class geomagnetic storm, which could intensify to a category G2 or G3 in the hours ahead. High latitude sky watchers should be alerted for auroras mixed with moonlight. Tonight will be almost a full moon. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to have a contest with a giveaway tomorrow at [email protected]. If you want to email your pictures in, include your name and your location. And a quick note saying that we're able to use them for commercial purposes. be greatly appreciated let's go into the actual storm itself all right heading to our estimated planetary Kp index we were in a G1 geomagnetic storm and we're currently in a geomagnetic disturbance so we've already seen three hours of a geomagnetic storm and a geomagnetic disturbance each on some of the other Kp indexes we've seen six hours of a geomagnetic storm and three of a geomagnetic disturbance on the Fredericksburg Kp index just a geomagnetic disturbance and on the most sensitive Kp index we've seen nine hours of a geomagnetic storm and that's really guys going to be a G2 geomagnetic storm those sensors are at a higher level meaning they're elevated in altitude right checking our work with the German Kp index over in Germany we see that we've been in a geomagnetic disturbance here for three hours that actually was only a disturbance for well nine straight hours in Germany now it is nighttime currently in Germany and they're not directly facing the sun but that storm will spread all over the globe once it infiltrates our atmosphere as it's doing now i thought we would actually watch the electron count move way up as the storm hits us here you can see it hit around 1500 UTC time we'll play that back over just no electron count whatsoever here is zero and then we move up and to about the 50 or 60 range here and you can see that we actually got impacted by solar winds and plasma as a matter of fact so we look like we actually took a part of that coronal mass ejection and so i'll show you in just a moment all right taking a look at our real-time solar wind satellite discover our brand new satellite we see first off in red here well our Bz is south which means our shields are down and our shields are actually at a southern well angle as well well they did pop up here right after the initial impact but that's not a good position for these to be in at all looks like we got hit with plasma moving way up here in just the last hour or so we see uh some readings of 40 49 some more readings i can grab them 40 and there's some higher than that that i just can't grab uh looks like the plasma has moved up to around 50 centimeters cubed believe it or not which is amazing we'll take a look at another chart so we can get a little bit better reading here and you can see that the solar winds were pushed ahead of the plasma this being the coronal mass ejection from the X 1.9 and this being the first bit of solar winds although it will increase again from the coronal hole that was earth facing see the temperature shot up it is slightly going down we'll see how long the plasma lasts as soon as the plasma uh well passes through solar winds we'll start back up looks like we had a peak over 500 kilometers per second nothing out of the ordinary and that plasma definitely is that CME striking now the CME might have struck quicker or sooner than the winds from the coronal mass ejection the high speed winds that looks like that's exactly what happened pushing some of the winds at a higher speed in front of the plasma exactly what we expect to see here with increased temperature although the temperatures are falling quickly i don't know if the plasma is going to fall off or not you have to keep an eye on that but you can see the impact itself right there all right over to ACE real-time space weather also at Lagrange point 1, 1 million miles or above earth orbiting basically the same exact thing we see looks like the plasma even went higher here maybe to the 70 range here shields were down and now they're actually tilted up our shields are down here in red our Bz here but the angle has actually improved the plasma is hitting real hard here it pushed the winds ahead of it like we would expect and that temperature shot up with the plasma until winds although for some reason it shot right back down that's a little bit questionable let's move over to spaceweather.com or spaceweatherlive.com and see if we can get a better look at the plasma and solar winds let's first look at these solar winds they did go up to right at let's see if we can catch it 500 kilometers per second they use ACE here at spaceweatherlive.com and they're saying at current wind speed it will be 55 minutes to reach earth from the measurement here at ACE which is at the same orbit and the Lagrange point one million miles above earth orbiting as discover our newer satellite let's look at the density it looks like we definitely are just starting our geomagnetic storm all right this way we can really get a look at the density here topped out at 70.26 that first hit was 58.27 we're currently at 30.63 some decent size hits in there though for sure 60.19 so that's some fairly dense plasma that's going to be from the coronal mass ejection from the X 1.9 right the X 1.9 we'll take a quick look at what's called our magnetometer and see what it has to say about a geomagnetic storm underway one of the best ways to see if we're actually in a geomagnetic storm or not is to look at our magnetometers and here we see that we touched into a Kp5 or a G1 geomagnetic storm event we came off of that and we're almost back in that range we're in disturbance range currently but that's a really big move from positive to an actual storm level right here so that's a good indication that we're definitely being hit by geomagnetic storm now the wind stream from that coronal hole should last approximately 24 plus hours so tonight i want y'all to take as many pictures as you can and send them in via email to world news report today two t's report today at gmail.com with your name and location permission to use them commercially if you can although sending them in will be thought of as permission to use them commercially so ladies and gentlemen uh we did get hit by that coronal mass ejection looks like uh we got flanked by it although it showed some serious plasma there at 70.26 at 58.27 and at 60.19 that looks like that might have been the highest plasma we're going to see i'll let you know in about an hour right again this was measured about 55 minutes above earth so it's going to take about 55 minutes for the solar wind plasma to reach earth from the point we are right here where we're seeing 35.03 and it is going up our magnetometers and kp indexes are measuring from the ground level we can see that we've come out of that geomagnetic storm but we're probably headed right back in it or we probably most definitely are headed right back in it with solar winds if the cme is finished with its glancing blow It did push the winds out in front of it like we expected, but the actual solar wind stream from the coronal hole will be ongoing now for over 24 hours. 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