Space weather · Aotearoa New Zealand

Watch the Sun's storms reach Earth.

Solmate follows the Sun, the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field in near real time, showing when a geomagnetic storm is building and how strongly the magnetic field around New Zealand is being disturbed.

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Geomagnetic activityHp30 index, GFZ
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Storm watchNOAA SWPC
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Solar wind speedAt L1, upstream of Earth
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IMF BzSouthward lets energy in
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Largest flare, 24 hGOES X-ray
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The dashboard

Inside the Solmate dashboard

A dashboard that runs in your browser and installs like an app.

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Real time GIC

Hp30, solar wind structure, speed, IMF and GeoNet ground magnetometers, with solar wind travel times and NOAA storm watches.

Solar

GOES X-ray flares, coronagraph and SUVI imagery, WSA-Enlil runs and energetic particles, with a flare banner for the last 24 hours.

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Extended tools for real-time operations, available to members.
Learning programGICs for VIPs

Learn how space weather works

Eleven short chapters in everyday language. No physics background needed.

Start chapter 1 Glossary
  1. 01Meet the Sun
  2. 02What the Sun sends our way
  3. 03The solar wind and its magnetic field
  4. 04Watching from space
  5. 05Earth's magnetic shield
  6. 06Bz: opening the door
  7. 07Geomagnetic storms
  8. 08Measuring storms: Kp, G scale and Hp30
  9. 09Induced currents (GICs)
  10. 10Case study: the May 2024 storm
  11. 11Putting it all together
About Solmate

Made in New Zealand.

Solmate uses public data from NOAA SWPC, NASA, GFZ Potsdam and GeoNet. It is not an official warning service — for official alerts, follow space weather agencies such as NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center.