:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 12 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 346 Issued at 0030Z on 12 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 11 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 11/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1912 S21W52 144 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1916 S12W78 171 0320 Ekc 12 20 Beta-Gamma 1917 S1 ...Continue Reading

Partial Data Outage Update: On Wednesday, December 11, 2013, SWPC conducted a test of its newly installed backup site. Further testing is scheduled for both Tuesday and Wednesday, December 17-18, 2013, between the hours of 8:00am and 12:00 noon MST. At those times SWPC will experience partial data outages. The backup site and its testing are critical to ensure that space weather data and products will continue to be disseminated if there is an outage at our primary facility. At this time NOAA does not have the ca ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 11 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 345 Issued at 0030Z on 11 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 10 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 10/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1912 S21W38 143 0080 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1916 S12W64 169 0350 Ekc 12 27 Beta-Gamma 1917 S1 ...Continue Reading

The latest from NASA's Earth Observatory (10 December 2013) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Latest Images: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/ * Cloud Towers http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82521&src=eoa-iotd * Smog Shrouds Eastern China http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82535&src=eoa-iotd * Dune movement around Aorounga http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=82517&src=eoa-iotd * Taylor Valley, Antarctica http://eartho ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 1 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- DUST, SMOKE, AND HAZE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- HAZE IN EASTERN CHINA Thick haze hovered over eastern China winter 2013. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82535&src=nha *** MODIS(Terra) image from Dec 07, 2013 (Posted on Dec 09, 2013 2:03 PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 10 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 344 Issued at 0030Z on 10 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1909 S19W93 212 0040 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1912 S21W24 143 0110 Hsx 04 02 Alpha 1916 S13W51 ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FLOODS (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FLOODS IN EAST AFRICA The Shabelle River inundated farmland in a key food-producing region in Somalia. * http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=82513&src=nha *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Dec 04, 2013 (Posted on Dec 06, 2013 1:00 PM) -- VOLCANOES AND EARTHQUAKES (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- ACTIVITY AT SAKURAJIM ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-50 2013 December 8 at 9:43 p.m. MST (2013 December 9 0443 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For December 2-8 NOAA Scale G2 (Moderate) geomagnetic storm conditions were observed on 08 December (0000 - 0300 UTC) due to coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) effects. NOAA Scale G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm conditions were observed on 08 December (0300-0600 UTC ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2013 Dec 09 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 343 Issued at 0030Z on 09 Dec 2013 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 08 Dec I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 08/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 1909 S19W79 211 0050 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1912 S21W12 144 0120 Hsx 02 01 Alpha 1916 S13W37 ...Continue Reading

Space Weather News for Dec. 8, 2013 http://spaceweather.com METEOR OUTBURST: The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar is detecting echoes from a meteor outburst in the constellation Andromeda, in progress on Dec. 8th. It appears to be debris from old Comet Biela, which broke apart in the 19th century. Observers in the northern hemisphere, especially Europeans, should be alert for Andromedid meteors on the night of Dec. 8-9. More information may be found at http://spaceweather.com. GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A solar wind stream h ...Continue Reading