[South Florida DX Association] Space Weather News for Dec. 7, 2006 - SOLAR ACTIVITY

[Bill Marx]

Space Weather News for Dec. 7, 2006

SOLAR ACTIVITY:  Big sunspot 930 continues to be a source of strong solar 
activity.  The active region has produced two X-class flares and several 
lesser flares since it appeared only two days ago. Forecasters estimate a 
50% chance of another X-flare during the next 24 hours.

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) hurled into space by the blasts of Dec. 5th 
and 6th  will not hit Earth head-on.  Why not?  Because the sunspot was near 
the sun's eastern limb and thus not facing Earth at the time of the 
explosions.  However, we could experience glancing blows from the CMEs, 
producing high-latitude geomagnetic storms in the nights ahead. Northern sky 
watchers