What Is Space Weather

Rather than wind rain thunder and seasonal changes space weather develops differently and produces outcomes unlike terrestrial weather.

What is space weather. Earth is surrounded by a sort of magnetic bubble called the magnetosphere. The radiation and magnetic fields in space weather swirl around earth in very complex patterns. The solar minimum between solar cycle 24 and 25 happened in december 2019.

However space weather can affect earth and the rest of the solar system. Understanding space weather means looking beyond our experiences on the earth s surface. About space weather impacts different types of space weather can affect different technologies at earth.

These balloons are equipped with radiation sensors that detect cosmic rays a surprisingly down to earth form of space weather. Solar prediction scientists announce solar cycle 25. Activity on the sun s surface creates a type of weather called space weather.

Tuesday september 15 2020 17 15 utc. Space weather the name scientists adopted in the late twentieth century to describe changes in space has become a keen area of study for many heliophysicists meteorologists and skywatchers. The sun is really far away about 93 million miles 150 million kilometers from earth.

Space weather is a branch of space physics and aeronomy or heliophysics concerned with the time varying conditions within the solar system including the solar wind emphasizing the space surrounding the earth including conditions in the magnetosphere ionosphere thermosphere and exosphere. When space weather from the sun reaches earth it runs into our planet s magnetic field and its atmosphere. Space weather is a term which has become accepted over the past few years to refer to a collection of physical processes beginning at the sun and ultimately affecting human activities on earth and in space.

Space weather is the physical and phenomenological state of natural space environments. How do space weather storms affect earth. The space weather prediction center is pleased to announce the operational release of improved geoelectric field maps.