SOLAR RADIATION STORM UPDATE: For the third day in a row, energetic protons from the sun are raining down on Earth. However, the storm is subsiding. It is now a minor S1-class event. The storm’s one lingering effect is a polar cap absorption event (PCA):

Red zones in this global map show where shortwave radio transmissions are being absorbed. Frequencies below 15 MHz are almost completely blacked out, while anything below 35 MHz is being attentuated, at least a little.
This is a direct result of the ongoing solar radiation storm. Earth’s magnetic field funnels the proton rain toward the poles where their ionizing effect causes the absorption of shortwave radio. The south pole is more strongly effected than the north pole because it is now summer in the south; that side of Earth is tilted into the radiation storm.
The absorption event could last for days; you can can monitor its progress here.
Today is Tone 13
The amplitudes are pushing the roof off of Tone 12 yesterday. GOOD! Today is Red 13 Cosmic 🌎 Earth.


