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Note: A new high latitude sunspot is emerging in the southern
hemisphere now. It is likely from the upcoming solar cycle 25! If it
persists, I will highlight it in my next forecast.
This week, we are still riding the high of the total solar eclipse
back on July 2nd as space weather picks up. Two bright regions have
returned to Earth view (along with what looks to be a newly emerging
sunspot in the southern hemisphere, likely from the upcoming cycle
25!) The returning bright regions are sandwiched by two coronal holes.
The first has already rotated into the Earth-strike zone and is
sending us a small pocket of fast solar wind. The disturbance has been
extremely mild thus far and will likely bring only unsettled
conditions and possibly some aurora at high latitudes. After we settle
down over the next couple of days, the second coronal hole will bump
activity back up around Tuesday of this next week. We could get
another chance for storming and aurora at high latitudes, but only a
minor chance of storming at mid-latitudes. Meanwhile, the bright
regions are definitely decaying and are only boosting the solar flux
slightly. This means amateur radio and emergency responders are still
suffering with poor radio propagation on Earth’s dayside. The only
group, who should be loving life right now are GPS/GNSS users. The
mild disturbance and low solar flux combine to help improve reception,
especially at low latitudes so GPS users should enjoy decent reception
all over. Catch up on some amazing views of our “Blackstar” during
totality, see where aurora and noctilucent clouds were caught this
past week, and learn what else our Sun has in store.
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For a more in-depth look at the data and images in this video see
links in my prior videos. I am saving room here for links to the field
reporter images highlighted this week!
Field Reporter Photography: Ward Bruggeman, ESO’s La Silla Observatory
in Chile: https://twitter.com/Ward_Weerman/stat… Universidad
Católica de Chile, Elqui Valley, in northern Chile:
https://twitter.com/ucatolica_chile/s… Lenny de Vries, La Serena,
Chile: https://twitter.com/Lenny_deVries/sta… Daniel Fischer,
Puclaro Lake, Chile: https://twitter.com/cosmos4u/status/1… Alba
Garcia, Chile: https://twitter.com/albamistic/status… Adrien
Mauduit, Mountains near La Serena, Chile:
https://twitter.com/NightLights_AM/st… David McColm, Pacific Ocean,
Chile: https://twitter.com/triwhistler/statu… Notanee Bourassa,
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada: https://twitter.com/DJHardwired/statu…
Deb Maluk, Sandy Lake, Manitoba, Canada:
https://twitter.com/dmaluk1/status/11…
https://twitter.com/dmaluk1/status/11… Dar Tanner, Alix, Alberta,
Canada: https://twitter.com/dartanner/status/… Anne-Marie Gutschlag,
Invercargill, New Zealand: https://twitter.com/AnneMarie224/stat…
Images c/o NASA/ESA/CSA (most notably the superb SDO, SOHO, ACE,
STEREO, CCMC, JPL & DSN teams, amazing professionals, hobbyists,
institutions, organizations, agencies and amateurs such as those at
the USAF/HAARP, NICT, NOAA, USGS, Environment Canada, Natural
Resources Canada, Intellicast, Catatania, rice.edu, wisc.edu,
sonoma.edu ucalgary.ca, rssi.ru, ohio-state.edu, solen.info, and more.
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