Severe Level 4 Magnetic Storm - March 17, 2015

Magnetosphere Information:

[soulephix]

I, too, experienced a horrible headache all day today!  I do not get headaches often at all...and I am in Central Texas.  Interesting.

[NTG]

I concur 100% with your top concern, Ben!

[BruceWayneAnderson]

Thank you Ben for the update, and WOW what a nice blast from the Sun.

[ChoxTheMuse]

Great Update! Thank you so much, That chart at the end was a great idea, made it more clear to understand. Morning news is going to be interesting. We are cloud covered at the moment so I don't think we'll see to much tonight. Our bodies are extra sensitive too, feeling it...Hang in there and have a great evening everyone. 

[johnbzombie]

Thank You Mr. Ben for your intelligentsia  during these times... Cheers Mate....

[justinfarnell]

Thanks Ben. Word from NZ is that there was quite a light show last night!

[wendy]

You know I had a blissfully quiet day yesterday no ear ringing...hissing whatever you want to call it and I woke up about 7.45am Pacific and my ears were roaring with this sound this morning...it is louder now...I see that there was a 6.2mag in the last hour or so east of Indonesia roughly I didn't check the exact location..I just saw the purple dot on the World/European site EMSC CSEM.... Thank you Ben for the report, the seismo's Pacific NW are looking a bit jumpy right now and as usual prayers that Japan/Fuk don't get bothered....I am so grateful for the validation with this ear ringing...it is insidious...Hugs to you and your sweet lady and the soon to be little one who is floating around you both..;) <3 soon to be out here in body!

[Ave_Ash]

Does this mean more snow!? LoL God i hope not.We're getting smashed here in nova scotia.Thank you Ben for all your work.I look forward to your videos every day.

[TFYS-QA]

Just checked, KP is spiked up again - Impressive! I'm willing to bet that two years ago, it wouldn't have spiked up as much, because our magnetosphere was stronger, but I could be wrong

[CRTukkerr]

We can even see the aurealis borealis here in the Netherlands.
That's quite rare over here as we normally fall outside the area.

[tkerr]

Lots of wind here today but great signal. 🍀 Thank you

[beulahfuldreamer]

I was at work watching the updates and trying to tell my coworkers what was going on.  It fell on deaf ears.  Frustrating when no one wants to listen.

[cdbfort]

particularly unusual Australis Aurora in NZ last night, seen from areas of the south island, was apparently spectacular.
Magical southern lights enthrall New Zealand stargazers
New Zealand and Australia were treated to an incredible natural light show on Tuesday night when the aurora australis – or southern lights – lit up the sky.
Pictures capturing the event, the southern hemisphere’s version of the northern lights, were taken across New Zealand's South Island, including Wanaka and the Otago Peninsula, and also in Perth, Tasmania and New South Wales.
Ian Griffin, a photographer from Dunedin, created this stunning timelapse of the dancing purple, green and pink lights.
He tweeted: "Went to bed early last night? You missed one heck of a lightshow!"

[BigBrokeBill]

My cable and internet were out this afternoon for several hours, the cable company said that it wasn't an outage but a shutdown for maintenance, unscheduled.

[avauinc]

We were both sick too yesterday, we went to bed early not feeling hungry at all, with body aches, headaches and feeling very drained. I guess when our planet got hurt, we all feel it, too, huh? Thanks Ben for the report, appreciate it.

[BobbyisYoda]

I lost power in my house near San Antonio, Texas this morning and it lasted about an hour. It had gone out earlier that day for about 10 seconds as well. I don't think this was a coincidence.

[brigitteg]

Had sporadic, patchwork power outages up here in Haliburton County, Ontario.  We're mostly on the Quebec grid, so the fact that parts of the small town we're in were out, while others were fine, was odd.  The wind picked up in the afternoon - but the power outages happened in calm part of the morning.  Thanks for the update.

[ilikemorestuff]

I like solar weather reports from Suspicious 0bservers

[JetNix]

Watched the Aurora Borealis for at least 15 minutes here in Tallinn, Estonia around 00:45. Beautiful!

[TwennyGeee]

This is the best S.0. Ever. People cmon WAKE UP this is GOLD