Akshay Deoras
Severe Weather Forecaster
The Anticipated Coronal Mass ejections from 15th Feb and 13th Feb events have arrived which was detected by series of shocks recorded by the ACE spacecraft
The earth is having a magnetic field. Sun's magnetic field known as Interplanetary magnetic field(IMF). These two fields are in contact at Magnetopause. Earth's magnetic field is directed towards North and if the IMF points South then due to opposite in nature, IMF partly cancels earth's magnetic field at the point of contact. This phenomena is known as "southward Bz"
This results in pouring in of Solar Wind which triggers Auroras.
The Bz index has reached to 30nT meaning passing of shockwave ( 5-6UTC)
Kp index is now unsettled with level 4 and its expected to reach to 5 indicating G1 storm
High latitude observers must remain alert for Auroras.
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