Oh, for fun. mpb [but also, when the sun is active our television, radio, satellite, telephones, etc. gets disrupted. Twice a year much of Alaska has disruptions because of the orientation of the earth towards the solar winds.]
Solar X-rays: 
Geomagnetic Field:
From
Forecasting aurora now more precise,
WEB SITE: A new page offers an hour-by-hour forecast for northern lights.
- Geophysical Institute Web site –
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast
[revised]
see also (maybe more specific)
“The extent of auroral activity as it is right now and in the recent past may be accessed at http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/. The extent of auroral activity as it is expected within the next hour can be viewed here – http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/ShortTerm.asp
And, an aurora australis map!!
Northern and Southern Hemisphere
Site Search Tags: revised, aurora, electromagnetic, sunspots, radiation
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How can I get a geomagnetic storm alert on my computer? I raise and race pigeons for a hobby and I think this would give me valuable information to help me in my sport hobby. Thank you.
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If you click through the link above, http://www.n3kl.org/, you will get to the web page, http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html
They have a lot of interesting links there and instructions for adding the alert, http://www.n3kl.org/sun/status.html, to your blog.
If you don’t have a website or blog, you should be able to add a widget or gadget to your PC desktop that contains the same code that will display the information. Alternatively, if you use a home page or portal, such as Google or Yahoo, you should be able to add the code to that, much as you can add weather updates, etc.
I’m not too familiar with gadgets/widgets.
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I am pretty much computer illiterate, I juist wanted to know if there is a site that I can get on the computer to get geomagnetic storm warnings for the central states some ehat like the weather report.
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I have a big race coming up this weekend and would like to know the forecast about these storms. Will be having a race every weekend for the next 5 weeks.
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You could always just come back to this post. The alerts here are real time indicators and update automatically. The aurora map is an indicator of activity. I’ll double-check to see how many days the indicator covers.
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The aurora link has a discussion about how to interpret the daily activity into a longer term forecast– That might be a better site for you to bookmark. They also have ways to display differing maps of aurora activity, that is, where the aurora occurs over North America, which might help you plan the races more precisely. You can always come back here to get to those links.
Geophysical Institute Web site –
http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast
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“Author: Bilco Title: Geomagnetic Activity and its Effect on Racing Pigeons.
Date: 2003-07-31 22:53:53 Uploaded by: webmaster”
http://www.pigeonbasics.com/articles/article2.html
“gse-aa — GSE Aurora Alert by e-mail
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/mailman/listinfo/gse-aa
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