GEOMAGNETIC STORM SPARKS AURORAS

[WU2D]

Bands wiped at dawn today. It was hillarious on the Old Military Radio Net at 0500. KW1I sounded like he was on the moon and he is 10 miles away. "The most powerful solar storm of the current solar cycle is currently reverberating around the globe. Spaceweather.com reports that it's the strongest so far in this solar cycle.

Initially triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) hitting our planet’s magnetosphere, a relatively mild geomagnetic storm erupted at around 04:30 UT (12:30 a.m. EDT), Tuesday but it has since ramped-up to an impressive G4-class geomagnetic storm, priming high latitudes for some bright auroral displays."

http://news.discovery.com/space/powerful-solar-storm-rips-into-earths-magnetic-field-150317.htm

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[Pete, WA2CWA]

Bands wiped at dawn today. It was hillarious on the Old Military Radio Net at 0500. KW1I sounded like he was on the moon and he is 10 miles away. "The most powerful solar storm of the current solar cycle is currently reverberating around the globe. Spaceweather.com reports that it's the strongest so far in this solar cycle.

Initially triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) hitting our planet’s magnetosphere, a relatively mild geomagnetic storm erupted at around 04:30 UT (12:30 a.m. EDT), Tuesday but it has since ramped-up to an impressive G4-class geomagnetic storm, priming high latitudes for some bright auroral displays."

http://news.discovery.com/space/powerful-solar-storm-rips-into-earths-magnetic-field-150317.htm

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Check the date on your link above: Mar 17, 2015 01:34 PM ET // by Ian O'Neill
We talked about this activity here: http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=38067.0

Here is the current aurora activity: http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=38072.0