[generally]

anyone with knowledge about K index? Significance?

30 days of data here. Interesting. https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/daily-geomagnetic-indices.txt

[xone]

gisd O

[grey_whiskers]

Disturbances in the horizontal component of Earth’s magnetic field; goes from 1-9; related to solar storms solar wind and hence the risk of sunspots. 5 or above indicates a solar event IIRC...

[tang-soo]

Maybe a mascot?

[Cats Pajamas]

I know we all hate CNN here so have to share this one.

Ya’ll this is the funniest mess I have seen lately. Stuff about CNN writes itself!!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1190818330527043585
When you couldn’t care less about triggering CNN...
“I am a First Amendment absolutist, I believe in only two things completely. The First Amendment and Boobs!”

I freaking love this guy saying this to a CNN talking pointy head. The look on their faces is priceless.

As a girlie girl I feel so trigger proof right now.

As far as I am concerned the whole lot of the PC crowd have brought this crap on themselves. THEY NEED TO GET OVER IT!

[Larry - Moe and Curly]

“anyone with knowledge about K index? Significance?”

From https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index

“The K-index, and by extension the Planetary K-index, are used to characterize the magnitude of geomagnetic storms. Kp is an excellent indicator of disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field and is used by SWPC to decide whether geomagnetic alerts and warnings need to be issued for users who are affected by these disturbances.

The principal users affected by geomagnetic storms are the electrical power grid, spacecraft operations, users of radio signals that reflect off of or pass through the ionosphere, and observers of the aurora.”

What your seeing in the graph is a very weak solar wind. No geomagnetic storm activity.

A lot of good space weather news here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers

and here (with live views of the sun in different frequencies).
http://spaceweathernews.com

[greeneyes]

Has to do with geomagnetic storm prediction/tracking:

Planetary K-index | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

Planetary K-index. Kp is an excellent indicator of disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field and is used by SWPC to decide whether geomagnetic alerts and warnings need to be issued for users who are affected by these disturbances.

The principal users affected by geomagnetic storms are the electrical power grid, spacecraft operations,.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index