I got curious whether solar storms and the Earth's magnetic field actually affect how I feel, so I built a dashboard to track the data in real-time - free & online.
Hello,
I've been reading this subreddit for a while, mostly the environmental stuff, supplements. But I rarely see anyone talk about:
Schumann resonance (the 7.83 Hz electromagnetic hum in the Earth-ionosphere cavity)
Solar wind speed and Bz (interplanetary magnetic field flipping south or north)
Kp index (NOAA's 0-9 scale of geomagnetic disturbance)
There's some actual literature on this. Palmer et al. 2006 in Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics correlated geomagnetic activity with HRV and blood pressure. Zenchenko & Breus 2021 reviewed about 60 years of Soviet and Russian work on geomagnetic effects on physiology, mixed quality but some of it worth reading. I'm not claiming Schumann heals anything. Just that geomagnetic storms are a real thing happening around you every few weeks, and the data is public.
So I got curious if I could watch it live. Existing sources are scattered — NOAA SWPC has the solar stuff, Tomsk/Cumiana/ETNA have Schumann spectrograms, Kp forecasts live somewhere else. Nothing in one place.
I spent a few weekends and built sungeo.net. Pulls:
Schumann from 3 stations (Tomsk, ETNA, Cumiana)
Solar wind, Bz, X-class flares, Kp forecast from NOAA SWPC
A headache forecast combining barometric pressure drop + Kp + Schumann score
Moon phase and aurora tonight, mostly because I wanted them on the same page (but I also added this as another layer to look for patterns of connection)
No account, no tracking, no paywall, free for all & with full mobile and PWA like app.
AI disclosure: the daily plain-language summaries are summarized by an LLM from the raw NOAA/Schumann numbers. Data itself is not AI. Choosing a model without an unlimited budget is difficult, but I managed to do it on the third try (by Gemini Google).
What I've noticed so far: I see some patterns and connections. Then last week there was a Kp 6+ storm (G2-G3 Strong on NOAA scale) and both my wife and I felt off the same day — kind of a dull headache, restless sleep, edgy. Same house, same routine, so obviously not controlled. Could easily be confirmation bias. But it was specific enough that I stopped writing it off. Still n=2 plus anecdote and I honestly don't know yet. Left the tool public anyway — maybe someone with real Oura/Whoop history will see a clear pattern.
So, question: has anyone here actually matched geomagnetic activity to their own HRV, RHR, or sleep stages? I'd love to see 6+ months of Oura or Whoop against historical Kp. That's the experiment I can't run on myself.
Apologies for any rough edges; I’m still fine-tuning the pipeline and constantly improving the tool.
Link if you want to poke at it:
After all, we are essentially biological antennas too.