A severe geomagnetic storm (G4) is in progress due to the arrival of coronal hole mass ejections related to the returning sunspot group 484, now numbered 501. Some reporting stations show a K index of 9. The current planetary K index (Kp) is 8 and the Aurora index is 10. This is expected to possibly increase to a Kp of 9, a geomagnetic storm level G5, through the day. HF conditions are poor. MW conditions are poor.
Visual Aurora is possible today at low-latitudes. Aurora-mode propagation (Au and Au-Es) is possible and is already reported. Visual Aurora is occurring now in night regions, and is possible to occur tonight during darkness in the Western Hemisphere (e.g., North America). More information as events warrent will be posted in follow-up bulletins. Live information is on-going at http://prop.hfradio.org/ and a discussion is at http://hfradio.org/forums/ 73 de Tomas, NW7US (AAR0JA/AAM0EWA) -- : Propagation Editor, CQ/CQ VHF/Popular Communications Magazines : : http://hfradio.org/ -- http://prop.hfradio.org/ -- Brinnon, WA : : 122.93W 47.67N - CW / SSB / DIGITAL / DX-Hunting / Propagation : : A creator of solutions -- http://accessnow.com/ -- Perl Rules! : : Washington State MARS Emergency Operations Officer - (AAM0EWA) : : WA State Army MARS Webmaster for http://wa.mars.hfradio.org/ : : 10x56526, FISTS 7055, FISTS NW 57, A.R. Lighthouse Society 144 : ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is coming out! Preorder yours now! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt