{"id":15082,"date":"2015-10-07T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:25:44","slug":"met-office-guide-to-space-weather-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/met-office-guide-to-space-weather-forecasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Office guide to space weather forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Met-Office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15083\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Met-Office.jpg\" alt=\"Met-Office\" width=\"779\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Met-Office.jpg 779w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Met-Office-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to<em> SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike (K8RAT), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Met Office has this brief introduction to the subject of space weather and the methods they use to make predictions. It may be useful to beginners in the radio hobby.<\/p>\n<p>This download is found on The Met Office&#8217;s forecast page:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/publicsector\/emergencies\/space-weather\/forecasts\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are not giving us any good news regarding the next couple of days on HF.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/media\/pdf\/4\/0\/Space_weather_datasheet_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the Met Office guide: &#8220;<em>Space Weather: Find out more about how we forecast space weather&#8221;<\/em> (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike (K8RAT), who writes: The Met Office has this brief introduction to the subject of space weather and the methods they use to make predictions. It may be useful to beginners in the radio hobby. This download is found on The Met Office&#8217;s forecast page: http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/ They are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,43,810],"tags":[4292,3422,412,4107,428],"class_list":["post-15082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-space-weather","tag-met-office","tag-mike-k8rat","tag-propagation","tag-space-weather","tag-space-weather-prediction-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Vg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42403,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/first-long-duration-flare-of-solar-cycle-25\/","url_meta":{"origin":15082,"position":0},"title":"First long-duration flare of Solar Cycle 25","author":"Thomas","date":"March 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), who shares Tamitha Skov\u2019s latest space weather forecast video: https:\/\/youtu.be\/oNfOxlROKko","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AR-2758-magnetogram-1024x640.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AR-2758-magnetogram-1024x640.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AR-2758-magnetogram-1024x640.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":34370,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/space-weather-multiple-coronal-holes-passing-through-the-earth-strike-zone-this-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":15082,"position":1},"title":"Space Weather: Multiple coronal holes passing through the Earth-strike zone this week","author":"Thomas","date":"October 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), who shares the latest space weather forecast from\u00a0Tamitha Skov: https:\/\/youtu.be\/S5iNNqgf98A Click here to view on YouTube.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Ham Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Ham Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/ham-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Skov-Space-Weather-e1538736180752.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Skov-Space-Weather-e1538736180752.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Skov-Space-Weather-e1538736180752.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":41488,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/tamitha-skov-an-earth-directed-solar-storm-a-holy-grail\/","url_meta":{"origin":15082,"position":2},"title":"Tamitha Skov: &#8220;An Earth-Directed Solar Storm &#038; 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