Look'n poster, you have always been very kind answering my questions and putting up with my ignorance, are we getting a solar wind without an ejection? again sorry
Quoting: Palm The CME from the 10th did not hit
it was not moving so slow that it took 5 days to arrive
the CME from the 10th was ejected in a FAR nothern direction and it did miss us
I believe this is from the southern Coronal Hole solar wind stream
i can not say it enough.. the coronal holes play a huge roll in the sun earth connection and are big ball players in this game
they are so often over looked and the flares and CME's get all the attention
but the coronal holes tell us a big story
i highly recomend to google and do a tad of research on coronal holes and you will quickly see why i say this ^^
NOAA had a predicted arrival date for the solar wind stream set for Feb 17-18, but they did have at 1st the Feb 16-17 for the arrival. I say they just kinda guess most of the time, probaly because there is still much to learn about Coronal Holes/
They are almost always wrong about the arrival times of the Coronal Hole wind streams
this coronal hole was very far south, so the winds from it, if they hit earth, would have a southward direction
this is why NOAA suspected it would be so far south that it may not hit earth.
if it did hit, being in such a southern location, the winds would tip the Bz south, causing an onset of a quick small geomagnetic storm
this is exactly what happened today
From Spaceweather"
on the 13th...
"Solar wind flowing from this coronal hole could reach Earth on Feb. 16-17"
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on the 14th and 15th...
"Solar wind flowing from this coronal hole could reach Earth on Feb. 17-18. However, the solar wind stream is likely to sail south of our planet, making little impact. Credit: SDO/AIA.
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link to spaceweather.com]
here you can see this CH we are speaking of in the southern section of the sun :)
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link to spaceweather.com]
sorry i have not been around much this past week
just getting over this cold, and i got a bad sinus infection
my luck has been horrid when it comed to health issues
the whole right side of my head feels like its in a vice :/
its starting to get better now and im hoping i only have a few more days left before im back to normal
