Space Weather News for May 28, 2003

SOLAR ACTIVITY: Big sunspot 365 unleashed a series of powerful X-class
solar flares on May 27th and 28th.  At least one coronal mass
ejection(CME)appears to be heading toward Earth. The CME could trigger
auroras when it sweeps by our planet later this week.  The sunspot itself
is big and impressive; you can see it using safe solar projection
techniques.

May 30, 2003 Shift Report


Solar soft proton flux is High, but dropping after yesterday's big
radiation event.. (http://www.srl.caltech.edu/ACE/ASC/)

Significant solar activity: There was a long duration X class event
yesterday at 01:00 UTC that will likely hit us between 21:00 UTC today
and 18:00 UTC tomorrow. There was a weaker long duration C class x-ray
event at 09:00 UTC today that may affect us
later.(http://www.dxlc.com/solar/)

CMEs reported for past two days: May 28: The X3.9 flare early
yesterday was associated with a full halo CME. [This CME likely caused
us to shut down yesterday.]  May 29: A full halo CME was observed early
in the day after an X1.1 flare. This CME will probably arrive at Earth
during the latter half of May 30. (http://www.dxlc.com/solar/, Jan
Alvestad)