Coronal hole faces Earth

Friday, 13 May 2016 17:52 UTC

Coronal hole faces Earth

A southern extension of the northern hemisphere polar coronal hole is now facing Earth.

While this coronal hole is at a fairly high latitude, the NOAA SWPC thinks it could bring us minor G1 geomagnetic storm conditions on Monday, 16 May 2016.

Transit of Mercury

Back on Monday we witnessed one of the astronomical highlights of this year: the transit of Mercury. We're you unable to see this event with your own eyes or otherwise missed it? Then no worries, on our YouTube channel we have a video of the transit as captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Any mentioned solar flare in this article has a scaling factor applied by the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), the reported solar flares are 42% smaller than for the science quality data. The scaling factor has been removed from our archived solar flare data to reflect the true physical units.

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Current data suggests there is a moderate possibility for aurora to appear at the following high latitude regions in the near future

Fairbanks, AK

Current data suggests there is a slight possibility for aurora to appear at the following high latitude regions in the near future

Gillam, MB, Iqaluit, NU, Whitehorse, YT, Yellowknife, NT
Anchorage, AK, Juneau, AK, Utqiagvik, AK
Norilsk
The maximum X-ray flux of the past two hours is:
C6.18

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