M3.3 Solar Flare from New Sunspot Region

  We have a M3.3 Solar Flare peaking at 17: 46 UTC Friday, March 2nd.

This moderate solar flare originated from the new sunspot region that's rotating over the northeast limb.
This sunspot region was later numbered 1429

We will keep you updated on any new information on this event.

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Feb 24th CME Arriving Now. G2 Storm Expected

   Update 17:50 UTC Feb 27 2012 : 

The first signs of the CME from Feb 24th are now being seen.
ACE showed an increase in solar wind and density starting at 20:58 UTC
A G2 Geomagnetic Storm is expected.

Conditions from yesterday's CME impact continue into today, Feb 27, 2012.
Solar wind speed and density are slowly rising, and the Bz has now dipped into the negative.

ACE Data:
Solar wind is now at: 488.7 km/sec
Density is now at: 7.7 protons/cm
Max density reached: 36.3
@ 01:27 UTC Feb 27th

High latitudes be on the watch for auroras :)

We will be updating this report as conditions with this CME arrival change. Be sure to check back often.

Here we have the most recent images of the nict magnetosphere simulation

New Coronal Hole Created By Solar Tsunami



Image Credit: Solen http://www.solen.info/solar/

    Early today we reported there was a filament eruption and solar tsunami in the Northeastern region of the solar disk.
http://mysolaralerts.blogspot.com/2012/02/cme-from-filament-channel-eruption.html

What we can see now is a new large Coronal Hole that was created by this solar tsunami. This new Coronal Hole was created  just to the West of where today's filament ejection/solar tsunami was and to the East of sunspot region 1421. As we can see on the images, this new Coronal Hole is quite large.

   Here, we can see what the solar disk looked like before the filament ejection and solar tsunami. Comparing this image to the one above (taken post solar tsunami) we can see where the new large coronal hole was created.
Winds from this new Coronal Hole should reach earth around Feb 26-28