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SPACE WEATHER
NOAA Forecasts |
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Updated at: 2026 Mar 25 2200 UTC
FLARE |
0-24
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24-48
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CLASS M |
30
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30
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CLASS X |
05
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05
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Geomagnetic Storms:
Probabilities for significant
disturbances in Earth's magnetic field are given for three activity levels: active, minor
storm, severe
storm
Updated at: 2026 Mar 25 2200 UTC
Mid-latitudes
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0-24
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24-48
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ACTIVE |
45
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20
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MINOR |
25
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05
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SEVERE |
01
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01
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High latitudes
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0-24
hr |
24-48
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ACTIVE |
10
% |
15
% |
MINOR |
25
% |
25
% |
SEVERE |
60
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25
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GLANCING-BLOW CME: NOAA forecasters say that a CME will pass close to Earth on March 26th and might deliver a glancing blow. Thanks to the Russell-McPherron effect, even a weak CME impact can spark equinox auroras. Any contact with the CME could ignite a high-latitude display on Thursday night. Aurora alerts: SMS Text
NAKED-EYE COMET ON THE WAY: A visitor from the outermost reaches of the solar system is about to become a naked-eye object. Introducing Comet Pan-STARRS (C/2025 R3):
Michael Jaeger and Gerald Rhemann photographed the comet (magnitude +7.8) from Weißenkirchen, Austria: "The comet's brightness has increased significantly in recent weeks," they say. "One week after the full moon in April, it is expected to become visible to the naked eye."
Discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey in Sept. 2025, the comet is diving toward its closest approach to the sun (0.50 AU) on April 19th, bringing it well inside the orbit of Venus. If current trends continue, the comet could brighten to magnitude +2, easily seen and photographed in the pre-dawn sky.
The comet's brightness could receive a further boost on April 24-25 when it passes almost directly between Earth and the sun. The process is called "forward scattering." Sunlight passing through the comet's dusty atmosphere will be amplified 100-fold or more.
We won't be able to see the April 24th surge from Earth. The comet will be too close to the sun. But coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) will have a great view of what could briefly become a truly magnificent object.
more images: from Dan Bartlett of June Lake, California; from Mike Olason of Tucson, Arizona; from Larry Stevens of Portal, Arizona
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Every night, a network
of NASA
all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United
States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software
maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office
calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth
in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics.
Daily results are presented here on Spaceweather.com.
On March 26, 2026, the network reported 8 fireballs.
(8 sporadics)
In this diagram of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point--Earth. The orbits are color-coded by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue).
[Larger image] [movies]
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids ( PHAs)
are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that
can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the
known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet,
although astronomers are finding new
ones all the time.
On March 26, 2026 there were 2349 potentially hazardous asteroids.
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Recent
& Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:
| Asteroid |
Date(UT) |
Miss Distance |
Velocity (km/s) |
Diameter (m) |
| 2026 FO5 |
2026-Mar-20 |
5.8 LD |
7.1 |
15 |
| 2026 FC2 |
2026-Mar-20 |
7.6 LD |
15.1 |
9 |
| 2026 FQ4 |
2026-Mar-20 |
7 LD |
5.1 |
6 |
| 2026 FX2 |
2026-Mar-20 |
5.5 LD |
15.9 |
11 |
| 2026 FP3 |
2026-Mar-20 |
2 LD |
13.5 |
9 |
| 2026 FT4 |
2026-Mar-20 |
4.1 LD |
12.7 |
7 |
| 2026 FE2 |
2026-Mar-20 |
2.5 LD |
17.1 |
9 |
| 2026 FD2 |
2026-Mar-20 |
2.8 LD |
19.8 |
14 |
| 2026 FZ1 |
2026-Mar-20 |
15.7 LD |
7.7 |
14 |
| 2026 FV2 |
2026-Mar-21 |
4.5 LD |
3.8 |
8 |
| 2026 FE5 |
2026-Mar-21 |
8.4 LD |
14.6 |
46 |
| 2026 FA5 |
2026-Mar-21 |
10.7 LD |
9.5 |
14 |
| 2026 FO3 |
2026-Mar-21 |
0.9 LD |
5.6 |
3 |
| 2026 FK2 |
2026-Mar-21 |
5 LD |
14.2 |
13 |
| 2026 FW2 |
2026-Mar-21 |
0.6 LD |
16.2 |
5 |
| 2026 FD5 |
2026-Mar-21 |
8 LD |
11.2 |
16 |
| 2026 FN2 |
2026-Mar-21 |
4.3 LD |
12.2 |
16 |
| 2026 FD1 |
2026-Mar-21 |
2.7 LD |
4.5 |
7 |
| 2026 FS |
2026-Mar-21 |
2.1 LD |
15.4 |
28 |
| 2026 FJ3 |
2026-Mar-21 |
10.3 LD |
14 |
18 |
| 2026 FY2 |
2026-Mar-21 |
10.3 LD |
10.4 |
24 |
| 2010 RA91 |
2026-Mar-22 |
4.7 LD |
9.9 |
68 |
| 2026 FH3 |
2026-Mar-22 |
10.3 LD |
14.1 |
21 |
| 2026 ER3 |
2026-Mar-22 |
18.3 LD |
10.2 |
27 |
| 2026 EE3 |
2026-Mar-22 |
10.2 LD |
10.2 |
22 |
| 2026 FU |
2026-Mar-22 |
1.5 LD |
4.4 |
10 |
| 2026 FZ4 |
2026-Mar-22 |
1.2 LD |
13.8 |
3 |
| 2026 FK |
2026-Mar-22 |
6.9 LD |
15.4 |
16 |
| 2026 FU3 |
2026-Mar-23 |
3.1 LD |
10.1 |
10 |
| 2026 FQ1 |
2026-Mar-23 |
17.8 LD |
5.5 |
15 |
| 2026 FC5 |
2026-Mar-23 |
4.8 LD |
16.4 |
22 |
| 2026 FL3 |
2026-Mar-23 |
4.6 LD |
4.4 |
9 |
| 2026 FO4 |
2026-Mar-23 |
9.6 LD |
12.3 |
17 |
| 2022 FY |
2026-Mar-23 |
10.2 LD |
6.5 |
9 |
| 2026 FQ2 |
2026-Mar-24 |
6.3 LD |
10.4 |
12 |
| 2026 FX3 |
2026-Mar-24 |
3 LD |
9.7 |
22 |
| 2026 FG3 |
2026-Mar-24 |
8.1 LD |
21.6 |
29 |
| 2026 FT2 |
2026-Mar-24 |
4.1 LD |
8.2 |
16 |
| 2026 FN5 |
2026-Mar-24 |
1 LD |
11.9 |
16 |
| 2026 FM3 |
2026-Mar-25 |
0.6 LD |
5.4 |
5 |
| 2026 EP3 |
2026-Mar-25 |
8.2 LD |
8.2 |
23 |
| 2026 FG4 |
2026-Mar-25 |
4.7 LD |
10.9 |
7 |
| 2025 SP20 |
2026-Mar-25 |
18.8 LD |
11 |
12 |
| 2026 FB5 |
2026-Mar-25 |
1.3 LD |
10.3 |
7 |
| 2026 FB3 |
2026-Mar-26 |
7.4 LD |
13.1 |
17 |
| 2026 FB4 |
2026-Mar-26 |
1.7 LD |
10.4 |
9 |
| 2026 FA3 |
2026-Mar-27 |
7.5 LD |
13.8 |
17 |
| 2026 FR2 |
2026-Mar-28 |
18.1 LD |
11.6 |
26 |
| 2026 FL4 |
2026-Mar-28 |
4.9 LD |
19.3 |
14 |
| 2026 FU2 |
2026-Mar-28 |
2.4 LD |
13.2 |
11 |
| 2026 FN1 |
2026-Mar-30 |
8.5 LD |
9.9 |
18 |
| 2026 FA4 |
2026-Mar-30 |
16.3 LD |
11.6 |
21 |
| 2026 FV3 |
2026-Mar-31 |
10.9 LD |
11.1 |
24 |
| 2026 FJ |
2026-Mar-31 |
7.7 LD |
2.2 |
11 |
| 2026 FD4 |
2026-Apr-02 |
8 LD |
6 |
10 |
| 2026 FR4 |
2026-Apr-02 |
14 LD |
6.8 |
12 |
| 2025 GL |
2026-Apr-03 |
9.8 LD |
6.4 |
5 |
| 2019 FQ1 |
2026-Apr-03 |
9.6 LD |
10.1 |
13 |
| 2023 DZ2 |
2026-Apr-04 |
2.6 LD |
7.2 |
49 |
| 2026 FG5 |
2026-Apr-04 |
8.6 LD |
25 |
34 |
| 2021 GN6 |
2026-Apr-06 |
5.8 LD |
7 |
14 |
| 2011 FT9 |
2026-Apr-07 |
3.4 LD |
5.9 |
20 |
| 2024 TB7 |
2026-Apr-07 |
4.9 LD |
7.5 |
5 |
| 2002 TB70 |
2026-Apr-07 |
13.4 LD |
9.2 |
164 |
| 2022 GE2 |
2026-Apr-10 |
12 LD |
9.2 |
15 |
| 2023 HB4 |
2026-Apr-12 |
16.8 LD |
8.7 |
15 |
| 2013 GM3 |
2026-Apr-14 |
0.7 LD |
7.4 |
20 |
| 2026 AC4 |
2026-Apr-20 |
10.7 LD |
1.2 |
22 |
| 2022 UG2 |
2026-Apr-20 |
16.3 LD |
10.3 |
13 |
| 2025 HQ4 |
2026-Apr-21 |
16.4 LD |
12.5 |
22 |
| 2026 BK2 |
2026-Apr-22 |
10 LD |
8.1 |
219 |
| 2022 UU8 |
2026-Apr-25 |
8.7 LD |
4 |
9 |
| 2020 GE3 |
2026-May-09 |
11.1 LD |
6 |
21 |
| 2023 VR5 |
2026-May-16 |
7.5 LD |
2.3 |
10 |
| 2025 KR4 |
2026-May-18 |
15.2 LD |
5.9 |
22 |
Notes: LD means
"Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance
between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256
AU.
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Cosmic Rays in the Atmosphere |
SPACE WEATHER BALLOON DATA: Almost once a week, Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus fly space weather balloons to the stratosphere over California. These balloons are equipped with sensors that detect secondary cosmic rays, a form of radiation from space that can penetrate all the way down to Earth's surface. Our monitoring program has been underway without interruption for 10 years, resulting in a unique dataset of in situ atmospheric measurements.
Latest results (Nov. 2024): Atmospheric radiation is sharply decreasing in 2024. Our latest measurements in November registered a 10-year low:
What's going on? Ironically, the radiation drop is caused by increasing solar activity. Solar Cycle 25 has roared to life faster than forecasters expected. The sun's strengthening and increasingly tangled magnetic field repels cosmic rays from deep space. In addition, solar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) sweep aside cosmic rays, causing sharp reductions called "Forbush Decreases." The two effects blend together to bring daily radiation levels down.
.Who cares? Cosmic rays are a surprisingly "down to Earth" form of space weather. They can alter the chemistry of the atmosphere, trigger lightning, and penetrate commercial airplanes. According to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan school of public health, crews of aircraft have higher rates of cancer than the general population. The researchers listed cosmic rays, irregular sleep habits, and chemical contaminants as leading risk factors. A number of controversial studies (#1, #2, #3, #4) go even further, linking cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.
Technical notes: The radiation sensors onboard our helium balloons detect X-rays and gamma-rays in the energy range 10 keV to 20 MeV. These energies span the range of medical X-ray machines and airport security scanners.
Data points in the graph labeled "Stratospheric Radiation" correspond to the peak of the Regener-Pfotzer maximum, which lies about 67,000 feet above central California. When cosmic rays crash into Earth's atmosphere, they produce a spray of secondary particles that is most intense at the entrance to the stratosphere. Physicists Eric Regener and Georg Pfotzer discovered the maximum using balloons in the 1930s and it is what we are measuring today.
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