Category: Forecast

January 22, 2026, UTC 21:55

 January 22, 2026 January 22, 2026

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    |   5:00 pm 5:00 pm

Good evening and welcome to the official MABW forecast. Current conditions: Solar Wind Speed: 529 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 9 nT, Bz -6 nT That is a relatively slow wind speed, compared to what we’ve been seeing, though what we’ve been seeing has been insane. But, it’s still a little slow. Which may not be a bad thing. This is a […]

January 20, 21:23 UTC Forecast

 January 20, 2026 January 20, 2026

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    |   4:27 pm 4:27 pm

Good evening and welcome to the official MABW space weather forecast for January 20-21, 2025. The time in UTC is currently 21:23, or 16:23 in 24 hour time, or Maine local time 4:23 PM. The Solar Radiation storm continues at very extreme levels, and so does the geomagnetic storm component of the Sun’s current activities. […]

January 8, 2025, 21:33 UTC

 January 8, 2026 January 8, 2026

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    |   4:34 pm 4:34 pm

Good evening and welcome to the official MABW forecast. I feel like I have been under a rock for the past few weeks, with horrible weather conditions, cold, moon….but, it’s rather mild this evening, the moon won’t be up for a while, and skies are sort of almost clear. They were gorgeously clear today, and […]

December 18, 2025, UTC 00:00

 December 17, 2025 December 17, 2025

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    |   9:01 pm 9:01 pm

Minor substorm in progress, possibly peaking out in an hour or so. Many are still under cloudy skies. Current conditions: Solar Wind Speed: 663 km/sec Solar Wind Magnetic Fields: Bt 6 nT, Bz -6 nT

December 12, 2025, 21:29 UTC

 December 12, 2025 December 12, 2025

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    |   4:30 pm 4:30 pm

Good evening and welcome to the official MABW evening forecast, a bit early, since we are having a sudden increase in activity, some of which will be entering our earthly ionosphere shortly, before dark, but, it’s a good hit and conditions may last into the dark. Looks like some patchy clouding still up north and […]

December 3, 2025, UTC 23:00

 December 3, 2025 December 3, 2025

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    |   6:00 pm 6:00 pm

Good evening and welcome to the official MABW forecast for December 3 and into December 4, 2025. The time is now 12/3/2025 UTC 22:55. Well, what I said this morning and what Chris said this evening.  A sudden strengthening of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field is indeed underway. There will be a stronger burst in about 15-20 […]

December 3, 2025, 11:19 UTC

 December 3, 2025 December 3, 2025

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    |   6:24 am 6:24 am

A G2 (Moderate) Watch is in effect for 3 – 4 December, due to the potential interaction between a nearby passing coronal mass ejection (CME) and inbound coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS). The CME was observed on 01 Dec associated with an X1.9 at 01/0249 UTC from Region 4299. Although most of the […]

December 1, 2025, UTC 11:36

 December 1, 2025 December 1, 2025

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    |   6:37 am 6:37 am

Good morning! An X-flare was detected at 2:49 UTC from a coronal hole just coming into view. No CME activity has been seen as of yet, but, enhanced solar winds could come into play in a couple days, depending on what happens. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/x19-flare-r3-strong-event

Geoeffective Coronal Hole Dec 1-6

 November 29, 2025 November 29, 2025

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    |   8:34 pm 8:34 pm

This one is 22% smaller than on the last transit, but, was responsible for many major alerts the last time around. We’ll be keeping an eye out!

November 30, 2025 UTC 01:14

 November 29, 2025 November 29, 2025

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    |   8:14 pm 8:14 pm

Good evening and welcome to the official MABW forecast for November 30, UTC 01:11. A mild substorm is developing. Skies are clear, but the 50% plus moon will be a factor. Current Conditions: Updated, UTC 01:25 Updated, UTC 01:27 In other news, we had a Moderate flare earlier this afternoon that may develop some CMEs, […]