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<div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;text-align:center"><b style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Geomagnetic Storm Alert</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">September 10, 2018</span></div><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">To All Observers,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We received several notices today from SWPC, of the start of a </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">geomagnetic storm later today.  For the next 2-3 days please suspend all routine </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">maintenance near the magnetometers because we do not want any artificial </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">disturbances in the data during the storm.  This includes lawn mowing, pest </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">control visits, cleaning, and building repairs.  For those of you at high </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">latitudes, this would include the Alaskan observatories and possibly </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Newport; you may want to postpone Absolute Observations if the field looks </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">too disturbed.  We will let you know when the disturbance is over so that </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">anything that was postponed can be completed.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you have any questions, please feel free to call us.</span><br clear="all" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">

Bill<div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<div>Bill Worthington, Ph.D.</div><div>U. S. Geological Survey        Tel: 303-273-8472</div><div>Geomagnetism Program       Fax: 303-273-8506</div><div>P.O. Box 25046  MS 966      Cell: 303-895-6150</div><div>Denver, CO  80225               <a href="mailto:bworth@usgs.gov" target="_blank">bworth@usgs.gov</a></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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