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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by dave78 on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:06PM (#40324929)
SWPC is now showing this storm as a G5 with a K-index of 9: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by carabiner on Friday May 10, 2024 @10:51PM (#40325671)
Mother of god.
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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by hughesjj on Saturday May 11, 2024 @12:44AM (#40326007)
I wonder what the margin of error is, as it just dropped again

That puts us .2 (logarithmically) under the known upper bound for the Carrington event (from above in the thread)

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Re:Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, Two more earth-dir... by bamboozled on Saturday May 11, 2024 @05:44AM (#40327101)
Yikes
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