Space Weather Outlook December 30, 2018 at 07:59PM

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-53 2018 December 30 at 5:47 p.m. MST (2018 December 31 0047 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For December 24-30 G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels were observed on 28 December due to coronal hole high-speed stream effects. Outlook For December 31-January 6 No space weather storms are expected during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product Subscription Site. Please do not use the from address for correspondence, as it is not monitored. For comments or help, please contact SWPC Help.

Gov. Shutdown 2018: Is Critical Infrastructure Currently Under Attack?

By now you've probably heard about what looked like an "alien invasion" in New York after a Con Edison "malfunction" created a partial blackout.

While the Federal government is currently at reduced strength due to the partial government shutdown, I've been noticing some rather disturbing articles popping up recently - all critical infrastructure related.  Some have pre-dated the shutdown, but all have been very recent.

I keep a close eye on RSOE EDIS for critical infrastructure related events. These are usually weather related - but considering this has been a rather mild winter for the US so far, I'm rather surprised at some of what I've noticed.

So, here's a few issues RSOE detected...

Over 50% of the country affected by a CenturyLink outage, knocking out 911 communication.

Most recently - an gas leak and fire at a Nuclear power plant.


Some additional articles from Google News...

Fire at Nearman Creek Power Station where fire suppression malfunctioned.

Fire at a New York State Substation

Thousands of Clear Spring, MD customers without power.

Over 1,500 Morris Township customers lose power.

Thousands affected by Sioux Falls power outage.

Cyber Attack against U.S. newspapers prevents distribution.


Google Searches for "Power Outage" on the rise

More interesting is that searches for "power outage" seem to be rising over the last 30 days.

One of the ways DownDetector.com identifies outages is through examining social media.  It makes sense then, that in the case of a power outage, people would search Google to find their power company's contact information to report the outage.


I know there are a lot of unknowns here, but this should probably be a wakeup call - power outages can and will happen, even if they aren't part of a cyber attack.  You and your family/company should be ready.

Space Weather Outlook December 23, 2018 at 08:27PM

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-52 2018 December 23 at 6:16 p.m. MST (2018 December 24 0116 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For December 17-23 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For December 24-30 No space weather storms are expected during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product Subscription Site. Please do not use the from address for correspondence, as it is not monitored. For comments or help, please contact SWPC Help.

Space Weather Outlook December 16, 2018 at 08:53PM

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-51 2018 December 16 at 6:40 p.m. MST (2018 December 17 0140 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For December 10-16 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For December 17-23 No space weather storms are expected during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product Subscription Site. Please do not use the from address for correspondence, as it is not monitored. For comments or help, please contact SWPC Help.

Space Weather Outlook December 09, 2018 at 09:44PM

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-50 2018 December 9 at 7:25 p.m. MST (2018 December 10 0225 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For December 3-9 No space weather storms were observed during the summary period. Outlook For December 10-16 No space weather storms are expected during the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product Subscription Site. Please do not use the from address for correspondence, as it is not monitored. For comments or help, please contact SWPC Help.

Space Weather Outlook December 02, 2018 at 10:23PM

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #18-49 2018 December 2 at 8:12 p.m. MST (2018 December 3 0312 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For November 26-December 2 No significant space weather was observed over the summary period. Outlook For December 3-9 No significant space weather is expected over the outlook period. Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions. More information is available at SWPC's Web site http://swpc.noaa.gov Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscription or update the personal information in your account, go to the Product Subscription Site. Please do not use the from address for correspondence, as it is not monitored. For comments or help, please contact SWPC Help.