M6.3 Solar Flare & Earth DIRECTED CME March 9, 2012 Print E-mail

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CME IMPACT & G3 CLASS GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS !!
A G3 Geomagnetic Storm (KP=7) is now in progress. Solar Wind speeds touched 800km/s on the arrival of the coronal mass ejection (CME) late yesterday.
Active Region 11429 has continued where it left off, by blasting another M flare today (M6.3) while in an earth facing position, a coronal mass ejection immediately followed and is headed earths way. Impact is expected during March 11 and another geomagnetic storm may result.