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Some interesting goings on with space weather at the moment. The solar flux
reached an unusually high 105 at 2200 UTC on Tuesday December 5, 2006.
Emerging sunspot group 10930 produced a huge X9 class solar flare at 1035 UTC
on Tuesday December 5, 2006 and I suspect that the solar flare was actually
larger than an X9.0. A huge solar flare such as this is extremely rare near the
bottom of a sun spot cycle.
As the solar flare was not geoeffective (Earth facing), most of the energy
released by the associated the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) will miss Earth.
However a glancing blow is expected and geomagnetic storming at some level is
expected. More X and M class solar flares are expected in future days.
Space weather goings on such as we are currently experiencing is anecdotal
evidence that we are still not at the very bottom of solar cycle 23. My
prediction for solar minimum continues to be June 2007.
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Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF
Retired Meteorologist & Space Plasma Physicist
Lakeland, FL, USA
Grid Square EL97AW
kn4lf@arrl.net
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KN4LF Daily LF/MF/HF Frequency Radio Propagation Outlook:
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KN4LF 160 Meter Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm
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