NOAA, Space Environment Center: Geophysical Alert

[kg4kww]

Folks, turn on your VHF/UHF SSB gear and enjoy this short lived Geomagnetic storm.
:Product: Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt
:Issued: 2005 May 30 1503 UTC
# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center
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# Geophysical Alert Message
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Solar-terrestrial indices for 29 May follow.
Solar flux 93 and mid-latitude A-index 19.
The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 30 May was 6 (141 nT).

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been strong.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level occurred.

Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected.


Geophysical Alert SpaceWeather.com (http://www.spaceweather.com/)

[n8yx]

My TS-660 is on and monitoring from 50.110 through 50.130 USB; am also listening on 144.210 USB with the antenna pointed NNW...

[af2cw]

Space Weather News for Monday, May 30, 2005
http://spaceweather.com

AURORA WATCH: An ongoing geomagnetic storm could spark auroras tonight
bright enough to see with the unaided eye from, e.g., Canada and
northern-tier US states such as Maine and Wisconsin and Washington. #Dim
"photographic auroras" (visible to the camera, but not to the eye) could
descend to even lower latitudes. Visit spaceweather.com for updates.

THE MOON AND MARS: On Tuesday morning, May 31st, the Moon and Mars
will have a beautiful close encounter in the early morning sky. #To see
them, look east about an hour before dawn. #Mars, nestled close to the
Moon, is almost twice as bright as a first magnitude star.

[kb2vxa]

Hi guys,

I observed a few very strong but brief 6M openings throughout the day but for the past 3 or so hours silence. Time now is 2242 GMT. No particular 2M activity noted today here at the central NJ coast, none expected with most people out and about this holday weekend, even the repeaters were quiet.

[WA3KYY]

Lots of prolonged 6m openings the whole weekend. Worked VP9 from FM19 about 0030Z last night. Several hours long opening into EL95,96,97 & 98 Monday afternnon. Good openings to the NE Friday night and Saturday. Thought I heard a little aurora flutter Monday night but the better signals peaked to the south and southeast.