RENEWED SOLAR FLARING EXPECTED After the previous record active two week period of solar, space and geomagnetic weather I took the opportunity to ignore it all while all was relatively quiet during the past week plus. The minor Kp-5 to occasionally moderate Kp-6 geomagnetic storming of the past few days has been related to geoeffective Coronal Hole #66. This particular Coronal Hole created major havoc with Earth's magnetic field in it's earlier carnations as #063 Kp-7 Ap-106 and #059 Kp-7 Ap-129. It's unfortunate but Coronal Hole producing geomagnetic storms are far more common on the downside of a solar cycle and more promise to delay consistently good propagation conditions.
That was the good news. The bad is that Sunspot group #10484, one of the big three to create major havoc 1-2 weeks ago will rotate around the east limb of our Sun today, followed thereafter by #10486. It's doubtful that we will see an exact repeat of numerous X class solar flares, Kp's of 9 and Ap's of 400. However the groups have been very active while out of view http://soi.stanford.edu/data/farside/gifs_2/2003.11.11_12h:00m:00s.gif and more large solar flares, energetic elevated proton events, coronal mass ejections (CME's) and geomagnetic storming are probable. By the way it's not well known but high solar activity does impact sensible tropospheric weather by raising thickness heights in mid and low latitudes. End result is a displacement of semi permanent pressure systems and warmer winter weather and summer drought. Just one of the many shorter term patterns that gives the false appearance of global warming. 73, (Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF, Plant City, FL, USA, Nov 13, Cumbre DX via DXLD) ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tsekkaa HCDX:n uusi www sivu: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/dx _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
