The video reports on a prolonged four-day period of geomagnetic storms caused by a combination of two faint coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and a massive, Earth-facing coronal hole. The presenter discusses the fluctuations in the Kp index, the physical impact of solar winds on humans, and real-time satellite data indicating high-speed solar wind streams.
James Kaufman, World News Report today.
Ladies and gentlemen, we're going through
our fourth day of geomagnetic storms.
It's been a combo of two faint coronal mass ejections and a very,
very long coronal hole
that wraps all the way from the northern part
of our star to the southern part of our star.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, we started out on March 20th.
We're going to concentrate on the estimated planetary Kp index here.
Started out with six hours of a geomagnetic disturbance,
followed by a geomagnetic storm, followed by a G3 geomagnetic storm.
That very next day, we started strong with a G3 geomagnetic storm,
went down to a G2, a G1, a disturbance.
We had a bit of a break.
The coronal hole wasn't, well, completely facing Earth.
But we'll show you that coronal hole.
It has been held.
And as that coronal hole opened back up and was more earth-facing,
we went right back into that geomagnetic storm,
seeing at least six more hours of a G3 geomagnetic storm
and at least six more hours,
maybe nine, of a G2 geomagnetic storm
with another 12 hours of a G1 geomagnetic storm.
and it looks like another nine hours,
maybe 12, of a geomagnetic disturbance.
Talk about a long four days.
I am personally beat.
Don't think that that plasma and solar winds don't affect you.
This year, scientists are starting
to notice large upticks in hospital visits
and cardio incidents,
etc. during these times of geomagnetic disturbances and storms.
Well, this was a very long-term one, i.e. over four days,
and a fairly strong, a G3, strong geomagnetic storm.
Remember, the human body is electric.
Every time you move your hand or speak or think,
there's electrical signals moving throughout
your body to make those things happen so yes a
geomagnetic storm definitely has an effect on the human body
and really all living creatures
and what do we have here we have NOAA calling out
a geomagnetic storm watch for today the 23rd of
May and they're looking
for a G2 geomagnetic storm, don't believe we've made it that high yet
We'll check again in just a second.
They're pointing out this coronal hole.
It seems to be never ending here.
Again, going into day number four.
All right, here is the coronal hole that we've been dealing with.
Looks much worse on Soho.
We have plenty of sunspots that we are dealing with.
This was a beta gamma sunspot.
I don't know if it still is.
Let's continue.
This is, again, GOES Ultra Solar
Violet Imager 195 angstroms, GOES-19.
One thing I'd like to point out before we go
is this large dark filament here
that could absolutely pop off and create a coronal mass ejection.
Over to our GOES X-ray flux.
This is our GOES satellite that orbits at 22,300 miles above Earth.
And this is our GOES-19 here in orange.
These are the two CMEs, the faint CMEs, that started off this show,
and we've had absolutely no action since that,
except for the coronal hole that's obviously been blowing
the coronal hole high-speed stream directly at Earth.
All right, over to our Space Weather Prediction Center.
You can see that no plasma is in play whatsoever.
The 23rd looks like there's less than 2 centimeters of plasma.
So there's been no CME ejection,
and there's nothing hitting Earth.
But we do have abnormally fast solar winds caused
by that coronal hole where the canopy of the sun is missing,
allowing extra strong or extra fast solar winds to escape
and head towards earth and we are in the
700 plus range it doesn't say that on the prediction center
but i've already seen the
actual satellite and it's probably going to reach
a G3 at some point today based on what we're seeing
over to our DSCOVR real-time solar wind satellite
this satellite is 1 million miles
above the planet at Lagrange point one along
with its companion ACE a much older satellite
although they actually report similar data
when the red line is below zero here our shields are
down so up and down up and down all day long not great
when this is in blue here that is a good
thing that means that we have a northern tilt i.e. guarding
the northern part of our planet
with our shields you have to realize that the sun
is pulling all the planets through the solar
system. Therefore, their northern poles
or northern hemispheres would always be more subject
to anything the sun did.
Again, being pulled through by the sun, they have to be behind the sun
at some level.
Nothing is a flat plane, as they always show y'all.
Plasma, well, we're at ones
and twos and it looks like we just went
to about nothing here and we saw some solar winds hit 766
and this was at 700 UTC time which is going
to be midnight last night central time here in the U.S.
this happened several times here no let's get one
that's a little bit further out 729 here
at 11 UTC time.
That's going to be 5 a.m. this morning.
The solar winds do look like they're calming down,
and I don't know if the next Kp index
three-hour period show drop
will show anything but a disturbance
or even show a disturbance.
We might be in the clear for a while.
We might be in the clear for a while.
Temperature have stayed at normal, basically,
this entire time.
although they were elevated to start the day off.
That is what you see, folks.
And what you see is what you get.
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when we're talking about space weather, solar activity, etc.
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