Picture from the BOM space weather site.
Two CME arrivals are occurring within the coming days. The primary CME is related to the M2.7 flare on 16-Mar which is predicted to reach at 19/1800UT +/ 12 hours (that is both early morning on the twentieth or very late on the nineteenth in Australia).
The second CME is related to one other M2.7 flare on 18-Mar and is predicted to reach at 20/1700UT +/- 12 hours.
As well as, photo voltaic wind 27 day recurrent patterns recommend coronal gap wind streams are more likely to enhance the photo voltaic wind velocity over 21-23 March.
Some latest storms occurred throughout daylight in Austral, however lets hope we’re fortunate with evening arrivals as this time as situations are good.
If storms eventuate, seen aurora could also be seen in Tasmania and probably southern components of Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia throughout native evening hours.
The Moon is in crescent part and won’t intrude with seeing aurora within the night and early morning. Preserve a watch out and be affected person, because the magnetic polarity of the wind fluctuates considerably and aurora might come and go.
Darkish sky websites have one of the best likelihood of seeing something, and all the time enable round 5 minutes to your eyes to turn into darkish tailored.
As all the time look to the south for shifting pink/inexperienced glows, principally inexperienced for the time being.
Cloud cowl predictions will be discovered at SkippySky. https://www.skippysky.com.au/Australia/index.html
Right here is the near-real time satellite tv for pc view of the clouds (day and evening) http://satview.bom.gov.au/
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INCREASED GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY EXPECTED
FROM 19-23 MARCH 2026
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GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY FORECAST
19 Mar: Initially G0, then G1-G2
20 Mar: G1-G2 (minor to reasonable)
21 Mar: G1-G2 (minor to reasonable)
22 Mar: G0-G1 (minor to reasonable)
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