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Title: [BAA-ebulletin 01002] aurora alert
Post by: Rick on May 06, 2018, 08:44:16
[BAA-ebulletin 01002] aurora alert
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Aurora Alert

A coronal hole has started to impact the earth from 09.30UT 5th May 2018 (just as I was giving my talk predicting it in Newcastle). The field is swinging positive and negative and has started a G1 class storm with wind speeds over 630 kps. I have Aurora 10dg high and 50dg wide but with heavy cloud interference. Indications are that this will be visible in central Scotland but could go further.

Any reports please to - sandra-b at hotmail co uk

Cheers

Sandra Brantingham
Aurora and NLC director