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\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Troy Riedel, who shares the following news from Spaceweather.com<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

A BIG CME IS COMING:\u00a0<\/b>This morning’s X1-class solar flare hurled a bright CME toward Earth. NASA<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0NOAA models<\/a>\u00a0agree that the storm cloud should reach our planet by the early hours of March 25th. A direct hit could spark strong\u00a0G3<\/a>-class geomagnetic storms with mid-latitude auroras in the USA and Europe.<\/p>\n

NOAA Geomagnetic Activity Probabilities 24 Mar-26 Mar\r\nActive                10\/01\/30\r\nMinor storm           25\/20\/30\r\nModerate storm        25\/30\/20\r\nStrong-Extreme storm  35\/50\/05\r\n\r\nNOAA Kp index forecast 24 Mar - 26 Mar\r\n             Mar 24    Mar 25    Mar 26\r\n00-03UT        3.67      5.00      5.00      \r\n03-06UT        4.67      6.67      4.00      \r\n06-09UT        2.00      5.67      4.00      \r\n09-12UT        1.00      5.00      3.67      \r\n12-15UT        1.00      4.00      3.00      \r\n15-18UT        2.67      3.00      2.33      \r\n18-21UT        5.00      3.00      2.33      \r\n21-00UT        5.67      4.00      3.33<\/pre>\n
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Thanks for the tip, Troy!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Troy Riedel, who shares the following news from Spaceweather.com: A BIG CME IS COMING:\u00a0This morning’s X1-class solar flare hurled a bright CME toward Earth. NASA\u00a0and\u00a0NOAA models\u00a0agree that the storm cloud should reach our planet by the early hours of March 25th. A direct hit could spark strong\u00a0G3-class geomagnetic storms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[3,810],"tags":[809,808,4107,4581],"class_list":["post-59351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-space-weather","tag-cme","tag-coronal-mass-ejections","tag-space-weather","tag-troy-riedel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-frh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59638,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/spaceweather-com-sunspot-visually-rivals-carringtons-famous-sunspot\/","url_meta":{"origin":59351,"position":0},"title":"Spaceweather.com: Sunspot “visually rivals Carrington’s famous sunspot”","author":"Thomas","date":"May 8, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Troy Riedel, who shares the following news via Spaceweather.com: HUGE SUNSPOT HURLS CME TOWARD EARTH: A sunspot so large it visually rivals Carrington's famous sunspot of 1859 hurled a CME toward Earth today. 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