Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Eric McFadden (WD8RIF), who recently shared one of Tamitha Skov’s space weather forecast videos.
Over the past few years, I’ve watched Dr. Skov’s weekly video forecasts to better understand the implications of incoming CMEs, solar winds, sun spots (or lack thereof) and geomagnetic storms. While her videos include a lot of technical details, they’re also much easier to understand than the typical propagation forecast. Plus, her videos they’re chock-full of solar imagery and animations.
This weekend, for example, we’re going to experience some disruptions to HF propagation. Yesterday, solar wind speed soared to 704–and at time of publishing this post it’s 721 km/sec (thanks for noting, Mike!).
Dr. Skov explains it all in her latest space weather video:
Click here to view on YouTube.
Click here to view and subscribe to Tamitha Skov’s YouTube channel, and click here to check out her website.
For a beginner like me this is great. I dont understand charts, graphs, and statistics so well and having a broadcast report with explanations and visuals really helps me.
I met her last year (via her YT channel) and suggested that she provide more information on the effects on amateur radio which she has done. I have reviewed her channel on my YouTube channel several times as she does a great job.
Another Thomas
Whilst not as pictorial
http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Space_Weather
however sun activity also produces Auroras (Borealis in the Northern Hemisphere and Australis in the Southern Hemisphere)
http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Aurora for live images (UTC+10 in Southern Winter, UTC+11 in Summer) and an email alert system.
Thanks for this great link! Subscribed.
I (respectfully) suggest that she STOPS with the hands! It’s very distracting.
I certainly can’t comment because I’m often accused of talking with my hands. 🙂
Me too, give me some clay before I start talking and who knows what I’ll make by the end of it 🙂
Ha ha! Back in the late 90s I worked for a tech company and we always had a little basket full of Silly Putty in the center of the table. Gave outr hands something to do while were were brain-storming. It seemed to work and was a pretty cheap investment. This, a couple of decades before fidget spinners! 🙂
Yep. Already see her weekly contribute to HAM Nation, https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ham+Nation Apparently, we’ve just missed a massive 1859-like CME. (a.k.a. the Carrington Event). And it’s very possible now that we could see such an event within our lifetime. Fortunately, we have folks, like Dr. Skov, watching for such an event as our electric grid is very vulnerable.