Coronal hole faces Earth

Monday, 11 November 2024 15:54 UTC

Coronal hole faces Earth

Northern hemisphere sky watchers are having a cracking start to their aurora season. The past few months, we have had major solar flares, coronal mass ejection impacts and in general fairly high geomagnetic activity. Welcome solar maximum! So many people have already spotted aurora from their locations even those who do not live close to the arctic circle. Really amazing to see... and today we have more good news for you as we have a coronal hole facing our planet today which is sending a high speed solar wind stream towards our planet.

This is the first major coronal hole in quite a while. This northern hemisphere coronal hole isn't in a prime earth-directed position for it to optimally influence our planet but we should feel some effects from it within the next 24 to 48 hours. Expect enhanced geomagnetic conditions at high latitude locations when the stream arrives.

There were also some M-class solar flares the past couple of days but they were either not eruptive or produced a noteworthy coronal mass ejection with an earth-directed component.

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

Iqaluit, NU
Nuuk
Oulu, Rovaniemi, Sodankylä, Utsjoki
Reykjavik
Kirkenes, Tromsø
Murmansk
Kiruna, Luleå

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