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Snowing here, but my what a wonderful storm it is...

Best of luck Everyone !
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only clouds here, with snow on the way. thx
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Curious what the impact will be?
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helicon wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 2:34 pm Curious what the impact will be?
A link to & screen shot of the K index page.

Kp7, but alot of widespread cloudcover and snow interfearing in the weather data so alot of folks missed out.

Coronal hole facing earth now, stealing spot energy at center disk and with a G1 storm possible in the days ahead.


https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index
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StarHugger wrote: Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:33 am
helicon wrote: Sat Dec 02, 2023 2:34 pm Curious what the impact will be?
A link to & screen shot of the K index page.

Kp7, but alot of widespread cloudcover and snow interfearing in the weather data so alot of folks missed out.

Coronal hole facing earth now, stealing spot energy at center disk and with a G1 storm possible in the days ahead.


https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index
Cool. Thanks for the reply
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