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Analysis of Solar Weather and the December 2nd, 2015 San Bernadine Massacre

This event killed 14 people and severely injured 2 others. Solar conditions once again played a major role in this vicious attack. Once again we can see that a strong condition orange occurred.



A condition orange is where sunspots or the Sunspot Area Hemis, which is a decline in sunspot activity occurs. The other main factor present are higher solar wind speeds above 480 or more and a peak or increase in KP activity (also known as earth's geomagnetic activity).

 

Let's take a look at the numbers:



Below are sunspot levels. Sunspots dropped for 3 days










































Solar Wind approached high levels (above 470).  Solar Wind Speed is shown below.

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KP Activity (earth's geomagnetic activity) was in a peaking period above normal levels. KP Activity is shown below.


Solar Resources and Data

Solar Wind
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/ace-real-time-solar-wind


KP
ftp://ftp.swpc.noaa.gov/pub/indices/old_indices/2015Q4_DGD.txt


Sunspot
http://legacy-www.swpc.noaa.gov/ftpdir/indices/old_indices/2015Q4_DSD.txt

 

Please note NOAA archives the most recent activity in quarters so after a few months you need to look at the archive to retrive the data.



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