Welcome to the new universal day!
A minor substorm is underway, with readings fluctuating just on either side of the line between what is negative and what is positive- which, frustratingly, NOAA often denotes as -0. They don’t always. But it does happen, and if you read ACE data, coming through on the old DISCOVR scatter plot- which I do, because it’s bigger than reading it off the ACE readout- you’ll see that -0 from time to time.
This is another one of those nights of chirping crickets and a fingernail moon, the last sweet southwest breezes receding under a velvet coverlet at the onset of cooler northeasterlies. The last of the Hurricane Erin clouds scuttle across the sky, that wind having lain down yesterday, sucked back out to sea. I would be writing to you about the differing crickets in the Cricket Chorus- some sound like maracas, whilst others emit a solemn and endless tome-
But, then I looked at ACE/EPAM readout and discovered that my low energy protons were climbing drastically. Actually, all the charged particles are. This usually means we are about to see some activity brewing, that is, if the plasma cloud manages to mostly orientate itself to line up with our poles and get sucked into the Ionosphere and thereby react with charged particles in the Magnetosphere.
That’s the hope.
Here’s what the ACE/EPAM readout looked like, a few minutes ago. If you want to go to the link and play around with the sidebar selections, you can, here’s the link. You can choose electrons, or protons, high energy or low. I picked Low Energy Protons for this image.
Here’s the link. I’ll keep you posted. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ace-real-time-solar-wind
