A G2 Geomagnetic Storm Hits Earth Today October 31st 2026! Happy Haloween!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, it's been a bumpy day, kind of out of nowhere. On our estimated planetary index, here used by NASA and NOAA, we had six hours of a G2 geomagnetic storm, followed by three hours of a geomagnetic disturbance. We saw a G2 geomagnetic storm on our Boulder Index, on our Fredericksburg Index, And on our college index, it's heavily elevated, i.e. on a mountain, we saw a really rough day. Our college KP index came in with 6 hours of a geomagnetic disturbance, 6 hours of a KP6 G2 geomagnetic disturbance, and 3 hours of a G1 geomagnetic disturbance. That means a total of 15 hours of geomagnetic activity. Caught on that KP index alone. So we're going to stick to the estimated planetary index that did show a, well, KP7, G2, geomagnetic storm, and a geomagnetic disturbance for a total of six hours. What happened? Nothing was predicted whatsoever. And here is our G2, KP6 right here. You can tell by the color-coded chart below. This is seriously slow, folks. Here's our geomagnetic disturbance. And we did have a geomagnetic disturbance with the Earth yesterday as well. Very strange. All right, please note on our ghost X-ray flux that we see absolutely nothing for days. This would have caught any type of solar flare or filament eruption that was inbound. But right as it happened, it would have taken anywhere from two to four days to get to Earth after that. So the X-rays arrive immediately and the plasma and solar winds arrive two to four days later, sometimes even five days. We really don't see anything. I guess we can point to this six days ago. That would be very, very hard to believe. But there is a possibility that this sea flare, a very small sea flare, would take four or five days to get here. Now, that's the only possibility I see on this entire GOES X-ray flux. Was there a coronal hole Earth-facing? Well, we're going to be able to tell if it was solar winds, i.e. coronal hole, or plasma, i.e. a solar flare or film interruption. Taking a look at our two satellites, but no, there was not a curl hole that was Earth-facing over the last few days. Taking a good look at our star, if we did have a curl hole that was Earth-facing, it would be right over here somewhere. And there's a faint one there, but I don't believe that's our problem. Let's take a look at the satellites that actually orbit about a million miles above Earth between Sun and the Earth. Sunk in Earth at Lagrange Point 1 to see if they got hit by solar winds or plasma today before the impact. We'll start with our older model first. It's our Ace Real-Time Space Weather. It's been replaced, but let's start with it. You can see that this looks like solar winds. They started at 375. They climbed up to, it looks like, over 600 kilometers per second. I can't remember what we had. Long geomagnetic storm, and the plasma was elevated, you can see just a few minutes here, about four or five minutes here, of elevation above 10 centimeters cubed, which would be space weather, and there are another, I'd say, 10 minutes that were just barely above the 10 centimeters cubed, so I'm going to push for solar winds on this, i.e. I'm not going to be able to show you a coral hull unfortunately. See the temperature rose with the solar winds speed rising to over 600 kilometers per second. Plasma actually was going down during this time and we can also see most importantly our shields were down below the 180 mark. And if they would have been up here, well, this would have not affected Earth at all. At 600 kilometers per second, these are actually considered neutral to southerly facing, to these times, if you'll notice, southerly oriented shields. So, when the winds went up, the shields went down. Also, our red line here below, the dot line, means shields are way down, and you'll notice when the winds went up. Shields went way down. That happened repeatedly. Shields completely down. Both times we saw the solar wind speed up, which means that we have very little atmospheric shields left, and so that's going to be our problem. We're going to go to solar one to make sure we're correct, but it looks like solar winds have hit us. These are unpredicted, and there's no coral hole that I saw facing Earth. All right, taking a look at the prediction center, space weather prediction center, the taxpayers' dollars paid millions of dollars to upgrade this past year. They were looking for, it looks like, a pop below, below even 10. We actually went above 10 today with a little plasma. They were looking for solar winds on the 31st today. They went up to just under 500 kilometers per second. It looks like they went over 600 kilometers per second. And we'll put this in motion here. And you can see that little puff of solar winds right there that did sideswipe. It must have been a direct hit. It was thought to have sideswiped Earth here. And that would be it on the 31st. Bang, pow, gotcha. And they were expecting that to be under 500 kilometers per second. It looks like that was over 600 kilometers per second, i.e. the G2 geomagnetic storm was shields down and southerly oriented. All right, our new S1 solar wind satellite here. They removed all kind of data that's crazy of them. But let's take a look at the solar winds here. Up to 600, 597 kilometers per second. And that's during the three hours of a G2 geomagnetic storm. And see our shields are way down here with the purple showing. Way down. And they're, well, extremely southerly tilted or oriented. And that's the big impact. And that's going to be solar winds, not plasma. Plasma here never goes over 10 centimeters. Cubed, period, all day long, which means this was not a filament eruption or a solar flare. This was solar winds, probably caused by a very small coral hole that was Earth-facing a few days ago. You can see just mere 600 km per second solar winds caused our G2 geomagnetic storm, Absolutely crazy stuff, but with the shields down, and look how far they are down, look up here in the purple, and look how far they're suddenly oriented, this explains it all, and you'll see the same thing here, you'll see the winds pop up right here to 565, and the same thing happens here. It's a redo, plasma's very, very light at 3.7 centimeters cubed, but the shields are way down. Look up in purple here, way down, and they're extremely southerly oriented, so that means we had no shields at all, and that's right when the solar winds popped us again right here. Only 562 kilometers per second caused this geomagnetic disturbance for three hours. Wow. So there you have it, folks. It was that super small coral hole that was Earth-facing about three or four days ago. It was right in the middle on the equator, and it was very small. And, well, I wish I would have shown it to you, but it was so small that no one thought it would do anything to Earth. And really, it shouldn't have. The solar winds never even got up to 600 kilometers per second. Wow. That tells you. That if we are hit by anything significant, Earth is in huge trouble right now. That said, please give us a thumbs up, please share, and God bless you all.