[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov] I woke up from return from ship, hungry so why a bit of juice settles decided to check on the CME boy it is "gone". About 6 1/2 UTC, the wind just SUDDENLY dropped to under 300. Nict is not reporting right now, you won't see t there, but the ACE data is clear.

and the proton flux is almost off the chart. [link to www.n3kl.org]

and for some reason, this is strange, the electron flux at V=2 dropped to the bottom of the chart same time the wind dropped out. It is normal during solar storms for the electron flux to drop, or be depressed, this is due to simply the sensitivity of the instruments. But to just crap out with the wind like that seems really odd to me. [link to www.n3kl.org]

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov] This is reflecting the 8 C flares and just generally more flaring the last couple days, plus the M8.7 or so flare at 3+utc. [link to www.n3kl.org]

Another thing bothering me, is the TEC are DOWN for the last maybe a week and getting lower. Months ago they were up and they had to raise the red color bar up to 80 from 60 from 50 previously. During "my" daytime hours, it had been mostly red! I will check this in the morning again to compare my daytime hours, I am not normally checked this at 2 am. [link to iono.jpl.nasa.gov]

based just on the AE index this solar storm lasted just about almost exactly 24 hours.

And that sunspot that erupted producing the M 8.7 apparently is sending a high velocity CME, 2200 ks a sec towards earth, or a glancing blow. It will slow down a bit. [link to spaceweather.com]

The last CME clusters were about 800 ks,I think, didn't review my notes. this is faster but we shall see when and IF it hits. I have seen some big CME's never show up at all that were earth directed, that is why I say we shall see. Fleet does interrupt some of them, but Esu told me the last one we just had would not be interrupted. I don't know about this one. This last one we just finished is expected to significantly increase the quakes from their studies of the effects.

The new CME seems pretty good sized with the remnant showing on Stereo A here [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov] there are no images for the first 5 utc hours.

There are earlier images on Stereo B [link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov] Lasco C2

Lasco c3 [link to sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov]