NOAA Warns Of Strong Geomagnetic Storms Tomorrow March 23rd 2025!

James Kaufman, World News Report, today, March 22nd, 2025. God bless you and yours, no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Strong geomagnetic storm predicted for tomorrow. That's right, tomorrow, March 23rd, 2025. NOAA forecasters are predicting a strong G3-class geomagnetic storm on March 23rd when a coronal mass ejection is expected to directly hit Earth. Now for the crazy part. The coronal mass ejection was hurled into space yesterday by an M1.2-class solar flare that was Earth-facing and came from sunspot AR4028. It was a faint and wimpy looking coronal mass ejection, and normally it wouldn't even cause a geomagnetic storm. However, the Russell-McFerrin effect boosts the effectiveness of these coronal mass ejections around the equinox periods, which we are currently in. It's like our sun's getting a little bit busier here. We have a beta gamma sunspot and 4028 is down here. It was closer to where 4030 was yesterday when it expelled the coronal mass ejection that's inbound towards Earth. We currently have 13 named Earth-facing sunspots on our solar disk. We'll have to wait to see if they're going to get it right, but this is the WSA Enlil Solar Prediction Center, NOAA's upgraded bad boy that completely missed yesterday's storm and this morning's storm, for that matter. But tomorrow, they have plasma going up to about 30 centimeters cubed and solar winds going up to almost 900 kilometers per second. It's going to be some show. Now, both the folks that work at the Space Weather Prediction Center at NOAA and the NOAA KP Index forecasters both agree that we're looking at a heavy geomagnetic storm throughout most all of the day. They've got about 21 hours going into, of course, 24 hours with a small, a small gap there. So, we're going to see what happens, but they're looking for, again, a G3 strong geomagnetic storm based on a very, very small M1.2 solar flare. Let's read why. The Russell and McFerrin hypothesis. The semiannual variation in geomagnetic activity is well established in geomagnetic data. Its explanation has remained elusive. However... We propose simply that it is caused by a semiannual variation in the effective southward component of the interplanetary field. The southward field arises because the interplanetary field is ordered in the solar equatorial coordinate system, whereas the interaction with the magnetosphere is controlled by a magnetospheric system. several simple models utilizing this effective modulation of the southward component of the interplanetary field are examined one of these closely predicts the observed phase and amplitude of these semiannual variations This model assumes that northward interplanetary fields are non-interacting and that the interaction with the southward field is ordered in a solar Magnetospheric Coordinates The prediction of the diurnal variation of the strength of the interaction at the magnetopause by this model does not, however, match the diurnal variation of the geomagnetic activity as derived from ground-based data. However, predictions of the dependence of geomagnetic activity on the... Polarity of the interplanetary magnetic field and of a 22-year cycle in the geomagnetic activity are confirmed by studies of ground-based data. It appears that the mechanism controlling the semi-annual variations of the geomagnetic activity has been identified, but that a quantitative model must await further refinements in our knowledge of the solar-wind magnetosphere coupling. Now, translation, the shields are down. God bless you and yours, folks. Please share, subscribe, and always remember, anything's possible. Bizarro World, the Russell McFerrin effect. And now you know what that is, hopefully.