Live Space Weather

High-cadence solar & geomagnetic conditions, fetched live from NOAA SWPC — the context that tells a global space-weather event from a local magnetic signal.

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Planetary Kp

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Solar wind speed

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IMF Bz

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GOES X-ray

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soft X-ray flare class

Your ground station: join a NextMAG unit's network and this page adds the ground truth — the same field NOAA watches from orbit, measured live beside you, with the local dB/dt that actually drives induced currents.

Planetary Kp (1-min estimated) — G1 storm threshold at Kp 5 · UTC

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Solar wind speed (km/s) · UTC

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IMF Bz (nT) — sustained southward drives geomagnetic storms · UTC

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GOES soft X-ray flux (W/m², log) · UTC

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Coupling — Kp vs your ground stationLocal half: no live unit

NOAA's Kp says how disturbed the whole planet's field is. Your unit's dB/dt says what the field is doing here. Side by side, they show whether the rate you measure is what this Kp would produce, or whether something nearby is moving the field.

Kp now

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waiting for NOAA…

Local dB/dt now

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needs a live unit

Expected at this Kp

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needs a Kp

GIC watch level

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nothing assessed yet

Not enough dataheuristic verdict

Not enough to compare: this needs a Kp and a local dB/dt. The verdict is a heuristic and is never guessed from one side alone.

No Kp available (the NOAA feed has not answered).
No local dB/dt available (a live unit and about a minute of history supply it).

GIC watch level: none

No Kp and no local dB/dt available: nothing was assessed, which is not an all-clear.

No unit on this network. A NextMAG unit would add the local half of this card: its measured 1-minute dB/dt as a marker on the bar above, a verdict on whether the Sun or something nearby is driving it (storm-driven, local source likely, or consistent with Kp), and a GIC watch level from both. Until then this shows the range alone: what a typical station might see at this Kp, as a heuristic.

Heuristic, not a measurement. The expected ranges are order-of-magnitude figures anchored to the GIC literature's “~100 nT/min is a significant driver” (the top breakpoint of this app's GIC risk score), scaled ×1.5 above 55° geomagnetic latitude and ×0.7 below 35°. The real relation depends on latitude, local time and ground conductivity and spans an order of magnitude or more at any one Kp. Kp is a planetary index with 3-hour resolution (NOAA's 1-minute value is an estimate), while the local rate is one minute at one station, so a single reading can fall anywhere against the range; compare over a longer stretch before acting on it. The GIC watch level is this app's own: the thresholds of its preset alert rules (10 / 30 / 60 nT/min) and Kp 4 / 5 / 6, whichever is higher. It is not an official NOAA or NERC alert.

Data: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (services.swpc.noaa.gov), ~1-minute cadence. Chart time axes are UTC (SWPC time tags); "Updated" above is your local time. Kp/G-scale is geomagnetic activity; solar wind & IMF Bz are the upstream drivers; GOES X-ray flux gives the live solar-flare class.