Coronal Mass Ejection *update 22:20 UTC*

Coronagraph imagery from SOHO/LASCO are now slowly coming in and they indeed show a halo CME that is coming towards Earth. The CME is an asymmetrical full halo CME with the bulk heading north but a very respectable portion of the magnetic cloud is coming towards Earth. There are not yet enough frames available to give an accurate speed estimate but the CME looked to have travelled an impressive distance already in just 5 hours which suggests this CME is indeed fast.

For a more detailed analysis we will however need more imagery. More information will be posted tomorrow regarding this CME and we will estimate when this CME could arrive at Earth. We will also put out a forecase as to what kind of geomagnetic activity we can exactly expect but it already looks possible that middle lattitude locations might have a chance for aurora when the CME arrives.
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