Space Weather Alerts
We examine solar activity daily and forecast if this is likely to have any geomagnetic effect on Earth.
If this 'space weather' indicates that a large magnetic storm is possible in the next few days we may send out a space weather alert.
You can keep an eye on the current geomagnetic activity levels for yourself.
You can sign-up to receive a Geomagnetic Disturbance Alert email or follow us on Twitter to get daily space weather forecasts or occasional aurora alerts.
Sign up to our 'Geomagnetic Disturbance Alert' emails
An archive of previous geomagnetic disturbance alert emails are available to see what they are like.
Follow us on Twitter
For daily space weather forecasts:
For occasional aurora alerts:
Report an aurora sighting
We love to hear about your aurora sightings and now you can share them with everyone! GeoSocial - Aurora is a new a web mapping tool that searches for tweets related to aurora sightings and locates them as markers on a map. Currently you need a Twitter account to view the map or share a sighting but we hope to develop this to widen it's scope in the future.
If you want to report an event, tweet the hashtag #BGSaurora, the event's location (postcode: loc[EH9 3LA], town name: loc[Edinburgh], or geotag your tweet using the tweet location feature), and comments or pictures.
Past Space Weather Alerts
Links to previous space weather alerts issued by BGS.
- Alert 27-Mar-2017
- Alert 25-Oct-2016
- Alert 28-Sep-2016
- Alert 06-Jun-2016
- Alert 18-Dec-2015
- Alert 02-Nov-2015
- Alert 07-Oct-2015
- Alert 11-Sep-2015
- Alert 17-Mar-2015
- Alert 19-Dec-2014
- Alert 10-Sep-2014
- Update 7-Apr-2014
- Alert 4-Apr-2014
- Update 21-Feb-2014
- Alert 20-Feb-2014
- Alert 14-Feb-2014
- Alert 08-Jan-2014
- Alert 30-Aug-2013
- Alert 23-Aug-2013
- Alert 12-Apr-2013
- Alert 15-Mar-2013
- Alert 13-Jul-2012
- Update 8-Mar-2012
- Alert 7-Mar-2012
- Alert 23-Jan-2012
- Alert 20-Jan-2012
- Alert 04-Aug-2011
- Alert 09-Jun-2011
- Update 18-Feb-2011
- Alert 15-Feb-2011
