{"id":4171,"date":"2022-08-03T07:54:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2022-08-03T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T10:54:56","slug":"propagation-and-space-weather-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/propagation-and-space-weather-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Propagation and Space Weather&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SFI = 98 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A index = 9 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K index = 3 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSN = 25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHANCE OF EARTH-DIRECTED FLARES:\u00a0<\/strong>Growing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=187292\">sunspot AR3068<\/a>\u00a0has developed a &#8216;beta-gamma&#8217; magnetic field that harbors energy for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/glossary\/flareclasses.html\">M-class<\/a>\u00a0solar flares. Any explosions today will be geoeffective because the sunspot is almost directly facing Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/images2022\/03aug22\/hmi200.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"287\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GIANT SOLAR PROMINENCE:\u00a0<\/strong>There&#8217;s a loop of plasma on the sun&#8217;s eastern limb so large that normal scientific notation doesn&#8217;t describe it. &#8220;It&#8217;s ginormous,&#8221; explains Richard N. Schrantz, who sends this picture from his backyard observatory in Nicholasville, Kentucky:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/images2022\/03aug22\/ginormous_strip.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The arch is 325,000 km long&#8211;almost the distance between Earth and the Moon. These dimensions make it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. If you have one, don&#8217;t wait. The right foot of the structure is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweathergallery.com\/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=187290\">increasingly unstable<\/a>, and the whole thing could collapse at any moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFI = 98 A index = 9 K index = 3 SSN = 25 CHANCE OF EARTH-DIRECTED FLARES:\u00a0Growing\u00a0sunspot AR3068\u00a0has developed a &#8216;beta-gamma&#8217; magnetic field that harbors energy for\u00a0M-class\u00a0solar flares. Any explosions today will be geoeffective because the sunspot is almost <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/03\/propagation-and-space-weather-46\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more\u2026 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4172,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.summersidearc.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}