A Stormy New Year Celebration: Solar Storm Forecast 12-29-2018

Our Sun decides to celebrate New Years early this week with some fast wind from a familiar coronal hole that has brought us multiple solar storms in past months. True to form, it has bumped us up to solar storm conditions and has brought aurora down to mid-latitudes in several parts of the world. Storm effects including aurora views should continue over the next few days and at high latitudes, possibly into the new year before things quiet down. Despite the Sun being spotless, we do have a bright region lighting up the Earth-facing Sun this week. It has been enough to keep the solar flux near the low end of marginal for radio propagation on Earth's day side and will continue to do so over this next week. Learn the details of the ongoing solar storm, how it is affecting GPS, amateur, and shortwave radio on Earth's night side, catch up on aurora photos from the storm thus far, and see what else our Sun has in store this week!

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For a more in-depth look at the data and images in this video see the links in my other videos. I need to save room for the aurora field reporter photos highlighted this week!

Aurora Photography:
Croydon Hall, Abels Bay, Tasmania:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2331808436837724&set=gm.2502118139802269&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Sacha Layos, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA:
http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=150502

Tatsuya Takahashi, Yellowknife, Canada:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2053911864690253&set=gm.2902549213104095&type=3&theater&ifg=1

Tom Lowe, Shetland Cliffcam, UK:
https://twitter.com/saloplarus/status/1078746650666041346

Mia Stålnacke, Abisko, Sweden:
https://twitter.com/AngryTheInch/status/1078736641622183941

Ian James Smith, Tromso, Norway:
https://twitter.com/IanJSmith01/status/1078639476052758528

Brent Mckean, Eastern Manitoba, Canada:
https://twitter.com/BrentMckean501/status/1078530454456885253

James Rowley-Hill, Old Meldrum Scotland:
https://twitter.com/chunder10/status/1078423848389918721

Deb Maluk, Sandy Lake, Manitoba, Canada:
https://twitter.com/dmaluk1/status/1078584226382008320

Live Aurora Network, Southern Iceland:
https://twitter.com/LiveAuroraNetw1/status/1078735861402030086
https://twitter.com/LiveAuroraNetw1/status/1078743337052618754