Geomagnetic Storm & Solar Winds Pound Earth July 15th 2025!

James Kaufman will report today. Today is July 15, 2025. God bless you and yours no matter where you are in the world. Please subscribe, give us a thumbs up, ring that bell for critical future updates. Ladies and gentlemen, Earth is still being walloped by solar winds created from the Earth-facing coronal hole. Now, NOAA and NASA predicted that we would be impacted by the solar So we went to McFarland Hall. That would occur on the 12th and 13th of July. That coronal hole is huge, and it's actually still Earth-facing. Today is the 15th, and looking at the estimated planetary KP index, it looks like we had six hours of a geomagnetic storm and six hours of a geomagnetic disturbance. Now, of course, it looks worse on the college index. It always does. And the Fredericksburg Index indicates only nine hours of a geomagnetic disturbance, whereas our Boulder Index does indicate nine hours of a geomagnetic disturbance and three hours of a geomagnetic storm. We're going to go with our estimated planetary index. NASA knows new baby. All right, headed over to GOES-19 Solar Ultraviolet Imager, 195 angstroms. We can clearly see the polar hole is still earth-facing, and that tells us that this will not let up any time soon. I foresee the 16th and 17th also seeing geomagnetic activity, whereas NOAA and NASA said that that would end on the 13th, and see that the darkest part of the hole currently is earth-facing. Headed over to our Space Weather Prediction Center, NOAA's newest redone tool, they guesstimated today would have very little plasma showing up, I think they nailed that, but they guesstimated that we would start to pass through the solar winds by the end of the day on the 13th. As you can see, they went from over 600. To approximately, well, maybe 500 in the 14th, and then on the 15th, the start of the day today, they have them down here in the 400s. That's not what occurred, as we will see when we take a look at Discover. And, well, we just looked at our KP indexes, but still indicates that we're in a geomagnetic storm. NOAA says with the current wind speeds, we will take this solar wind and measure it with our Discover real-time solar wind satellite, about 40 minutes to reach Earth. First off, we see our shields are down here in pink. Never a good thing. The heaviest plasma we've seen to spike all day is 6.61 right in here. Plasma was all over the place today, probably bottoming out at just about zero and going up to 6.61. Of course, the story is with the solar winds. So we've had a bumpy ride. They were down to about 500, so that wasn't a bad call. But what did they do? Well, I'm afraid that they shot up to over 758, maybe 760 kilometers per second. That would put us in a G1 or G2 geomagnetic storm just like we saw. And they stay very strong all day long. See in and out of the 700s and we have normally here 917 kilometers per second. Wow I don't know what causes this spike in plasma here. And we always say that solar wind should work opposite its plasma, but temperature should have risen with the plasma and it didn't. So this is a real, real problem for me. I have no idea what occurred, but it's about a 30 minute to an hour time period there. We had a spike in plasma, not to space weather levels, and we had winds hit the floor to 490. And temperatures really hit the floor. So we're going to have to wonder what the heck happened there. And then you see your solar winds take back off. And you'll see them work their way over 700 kilometers. They're 710 again. I believe they worked their way up to 700 here. Now, they aren't really going anywhere. That coronal hole is definitely earth-facing still. And let's see if we can grab that plot up there. It's going to be some faster solar winds up there. I'm going to be able to grab it. I would expect two more days and 48 more hours of geomagnetic disturbances and geomagnetic storms based on that coronal hole still Earth-facing. That coronal hole is still spewing solar winds at these higher speeds. We guess somewhere between 650 and 700. They did actually exceed that to over 750 kilometers per second. It is hard to believe that today is the 15th, that NOAA could get it this wrong, this wrong. Whereas they didn't do a bad job with plasma on the 15th. They didn't do a great job, but they didn't do a bad job. It was all over the place from 0 to 6 up here, from 0 to 6 up here on the 15th, but they did a pretty bad job doing solar winds, and tomorrow they'll have done a worse job, because I do anticipate solar winds to continue. We'll take the last look at that coronal hole that's now more Earth-facing than ever. Back real quickly to GOES-19, so the ultraviolet imager, 195 angstroms, I would say that the darkest part of the coronal hole, the portion with absolutely no canopy whatsoever, is stuck right in here, and that is what we're going to have to deal with tomorrow and the next day. Remember, the sun is 93.1, 93.3 million miles away. According to mainstream science, so it does take about 40 hours, even at these speeds, for the solar winds to arrive here on Earth after being spewed from this coronal hole. Now, we've seen no flaring whatsoever today. Taking a look at the three-day GOES X-ray fluxes, we saw a couple of flares on the 13th that tried to reach the M. point, but didn't quite make it. Take a look at the seven day. Well, we did have these three M flares on the 12th, and I don't think that those are going to be in play. You will recall they were off the sunspot group, but it was just barely coming around them. So I think that after the solar winds die down, we might have a moment to breathe, but we will keep our eyes open for solar flares And anything else that might cause problems for Planet Earth. God bless you guys. Please share, subscribe, and always remember, if anything's possible, Bizarro World.