Coronal hole

Space weather this week is sure keeping us on our toes.

As we take a look at our Earth-facing disk, you can see a lot of active regions here that are rotating to the west limb, and you'd think that that would mean that space weather would finally be calming down a little bit, but believe it or not, this coronal hole or this set of coronal holes has really taken center stage.

We're actually surfing the northern end of this coronal hole here and getting some fast solar winds sporadically kind of on again, off again, which is getting aurora chasers at a high latitude.

It's a bit of a fun show, along with some solar storms that have launched from these sets of regions over here off to the west.

They're getting a lot of glancing blows, and it's so exciting.

We've got a lot of activity going on right now in geospace, but not a lot of activity on the disk.

However, as we take a look at this coronal hole, the set of coronal holes in a little bit more detail, I kind of turned it dark here.

First of all, you can actually see the extent of this is going to be with us for a little while.