This is TRAGIC news 🥺 Very sad to start seeing more and more of our OG satellites in both the terrestrial and space weather world enter end-of-mission phases, regardless of there being new missions that have taken over their duties 💔 nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-de…

Spending the week (virtually) learning about how the space weather community is beginning to plan how we will support monitoring and forecasting the space environment in the future Mars space. ☀️

Are you really a scientist if you don’t have your old conference badges hanging in your office? 😂

I think today needs to be declared as some sort of space weather holiday.

And while there was no significant geomagnetic storm that happened on this day in 2025, the tradition of big events was kept alive for me by it being the day I got my offer to join Lynker/SWPC 🥹💜

Is the Sun trying to keep the spooky season, October 10th activity alive? October 10th, 2024 was pure spooky magic ✨

Dare I say SPOOKY 👻 🎃

When do you think were some of the most visually pleasing eruptions observed by GOES SUVI? I am in charge of providing a brief later this month during the GOES-19 SUVI full maturity review, which means showing off some of the cool things it has helped capture! 💥

What a crazy time to be the observations lead at SWPC! I've been a lot quieter on socials recently between work and taking classes, and finally learning some much needed work/life balance. But what have I been up to in the space weather world? With SOLAR-1 in full operations, focus is now on supporting the planning for the follow-on of SOLAR-A, future GEO replacement for GOES, & the Vigil L5 mission! And plenty of other behind the scenes work to preserve critical space weather observations as well as bringing new observations into operations, which is captured quite nicely with this award I recently got 🥹💜

I could talk about recent activity, which I think everyone else has covered, so I'm gonna brag about cools things SWPC is doing instead! Following an exercise that was run with the power grid community back in August, a historic repository of geoelectric simulations for some of the top geomagnetic storms, including but not limited to the Gannon Storm, the Halloween Storm, the Bastille Day storm, and the March '89 storm that resulted in the Quebec blackout has been released publicly through SWPC's testbed site! testbed.spaceweather.gov/pro… While these are past simulations, they are based on a model that runs in real-time at SWPC (spaceweather.gov/products/ge…) to help support power grid planners and operators. Increased geomagnetic activity poses a threat to the power grid system, primarily through ground induced electric fields that can be in introduced into the system. Planners and operators look to SWPC to provide them actionable space weather information to help protect their systems and aid decision making. Having an understanding of how some of these notable events from the past have influenced the geoelectric environment and subsequently power grid systems helps the community better understand and plan for future events.

When the Sun finally gives ya'll some (minor) activity to get excited about:

Will always brag about how we have the best team ever! 🙌🏻💛

.@NWSSWPC Fun Fact: We share the David Skaggs Research Center building with other NOAA/NWS groups, including @NWSBoulder. So how do you know where within the building SWPC is? The boring way is to say what block and floors we are in or look for the SWPC symbols on the office name plates. The fun way? Look for the various sun themed wall decor that perimeters SWPC’s portion of the building. ☀️

New capability of GOES-19 CCOR-1: Hurricane viewing 🌀 The past few days, while GOES-19 has been in eclipse season with Earth, you can see a special appearance from Hurricane Polo off the west coast of Mexico! 🧐