Today, March 25, my morning blood sugar reading was 138, which is down 41 points from yesterday's reading. Last night and this morning my allergy symptoms increased significantly. However, there has been no joint pain. Nonetheless, the last 2 days I have been deeply fatigued by the effort of moving.
Daily Solar Weather & Health Report
The comparative plots of 03-23 to 25-2015 for GOES space weather data shows the Proton Flux had been rising for almost 24 hours and is now receding. This suggests that we will have a rise in the estimated planetary K index in a few days.
The electron flux had a significant downward spike, which suggests that we are going to have one or more larger spikes in the estimated planetary K index in a few hours.
The magnetic field had a downward spike, and is now rising. This suggests further that the estimated planetary K index will rise sharply in a few hours.
Last week's solar activity occurred from an active region of the sun, which rotated out of view, and thus out of our direct influence; however, that active region in the x-ray band is returning, and along with it is a rise in x-ray activity.
a rise in x-ray activity.
In support of my hypothesis that debris falling into the sun might be the cause of the cyclic solar disturbances I tracked down 2 observed sungrazing comets, which were followed by CMEs. I will be looking for more.
The Great "Birthday Comet" of 2011 also shows a few CME at the same time
Good-bye, Streaking Comet (October 3, 2011)The question of whether a sungrazing comet can somehow trigger a coronal mass ejection is an intriguing one. So far, the feeling is that apparent relationship between some comets and some mass ejections is simply one of co-incidence. At this stage of the solar cycle, the Sun is producing many mass ejections--in fact there were several earlier in the day--and it probably just happened by chance that one of them was around the same time as the approach of the comet. Some researchers have been looking for a more direct relationship, but nothing as yet has come out of these efforts.
The problem of establishing the relationship of sungrazing objects and the emmision of CME will only happen when the resolution of space observation of the sun's atmosphere increases; and we start observing all 6 faces of the sun, not just one; and we can also observe asteroids, not just comets.
Another Sungrazing Comet Gets Smoked (September 16, 2011), the Sun unleashed two coronal mass ejections.
Bye Bye Comet (May 13, 2011)Scientists, however, have yet to find a convincing physical connection between sun-grazing comets and coronal mass ejections. In fact, analysis of this CME using images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows that the CME erupted before the comet came close enough to the solar surface to interact with strong magnetic fields.
The problem is they fail to recognize that asteroids and comets are debris fields. All they see is the biggest chunk.
U.S. Total Electron Content. I found this page useful to observe during a Solar Geomagnetic Storm.
Some of this data comes from the
Space Weather Enthusiasts Dashboard very useful, so the format of this report is changing due to one of the panes in that dashboard.
Space weather data provided by the
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Space Weather There were 5 new reported solar weather events/predictions/alerts in the past 24 hours. I had to remove some of the warnings, because it was too much text for a single message
Space Weather Message Code: ALTK04
Serial Number: 1771
Issue Time: 2015 Mar 25 1204 UTC
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 4
Threshold Reached: 2015 Mar 25 1159 UTC
Synoptic Period: 0900-1200 UTC
Active Warning: Yes
NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 65 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
Induced Currents - Weak power grid fluctuations can occur.
Aurora - Aurora may be visible at high latitudes such as Canada and Alaska.
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Space Weather Message Code: WARK04
Serial Number: 2501
Issue Time: 2015 Mar 25 1041 UTC
WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected
Valid From: 2015 Mar 25 1042 UTC
Valid To: 2015 Mar 25 1600 UTC
Warning Condition: Onset
NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 65 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
Induced Currents - Weak power grid fluctuations can occur.
Aurora - Aurora may be visible at high latitudes such as Canada and Alaska.
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Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3
Serial Number: 2167
Issue Time: 2015 Mar 25 0637 UTC
ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu
Threshold Reached: 2015 Mar 25 0630 UTC
Station: GOES-13
NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.
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Space Weather Message Code: ALTK04
Serial Number: 1770
Issue Time: 2015 Mar 24 1657 UTC
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 4
Threshold Reached: 2015 Mar 24 1651 UTC
Synoptic Period: 1500-1800 UTC
Active Warning: Yes
NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 65 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
Induced Currents - Weak power grid fluctuations can occur.
Aurora - Aurora may be visible at high latitudes such as Canada and Alaska.
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Space Weather Message Code: WARK04
Serial Number: 2500
Issue Time: 2015 Mar 24 1623 UTC
WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected
Valid From: 2015 Mar 24 1623 UTC
Valid To: 2015 Mar 24 2100 UTC
Warning Condition: Onset
NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at
www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 65 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
Induced Currents - Weak power grid fluctuations can occur.
Aurora - Aurora may be visible at high latitudes such as Canada and Alaska.
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