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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by vk3pa[/i] [br]A moderate to major [blue][i][b]geomagnetic storm (Kp=5-6) is in progress since yesterday March 18, around 20:00UT[/b][/i][/blue]. It was caused by a new rise of the , with simultaneous wide Southward excursions of the Bz component of the IMF. All ground-based magnetographs currently show a decrease of the geomagnetic activity. However, as the solar wind speed stays high, we still [blue][i][b]expect possible active to minor storm surges in the next 12 to 24h.[/b][/i][/blue] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.