Solar Storms and You!

Data taken between March 22-26, 1999 at NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center with the Mark 2 magnetometer by Dr. Sten Odenwald. Condition of the Sun and the strength of the auroral oval from satellite data:

3-22-99   Quiet, with weak auroral oval
3-23-99   Quiet
3-24-99   Quiet
3-25-99   Quiet/Disturbed, bright oval  Day 84
3-26-99   Quiet, Bright oval, Day 85, Sub-Storm over Alaska

3-22-99
12:45   11.5 s  New position calibration
13:15    9.5 s
14:00   10.0 s
14:40    7.5 o
15:25    7.0 o
16:00    7.0 s
16:30    8.0 s

3-23-99
12:30    6.0 s
14:00   15.0 o
14:30    9.0 o
15:10    8.0 s

3-24-99
10:00   15.0 s
10:35   15.0 s
11:20   15.5 s
15:10   16.0 s
15:55   16.0 s
16:20   16.5 s
17:00   17.0 s

3-25-99
9:00    16.5
10:00   15.0
10:40   15.0 
13:00   25.0 s
13:50   16.0 s
14:05   16.0 s
14:30   17.0 s
15:30   18.0 s
16:10   17.5 s
16:36   17.0 s

3-26-99
8:45    17.5 
13:00   16.0 s
14:25   16.0 s
15:00   15.5 s
16:00   15.5 s

Notes:

Generally a quiet week. Most of the sub-storm activity that is seen by satellites in the daytime when I am making these measurements, is occurring, of course, in the distant parts of the world where its night time.

We found the two 'real-time' magnetometer stations at Kiruna, Sweden system and Flinders very helpful in corroborating the data taken.