Hi Scott, probably not quite that long, the ring current is fairly depleted so my guess is 7 to 10 days, but watch the Dst as it climbs back. The problem could be that there are more shocks to come.
Thanks Alan, ever the optimist you are :-) Lets hope good condx return or the bad condx are educational ! There's an interesting story on spaceweather.com about a CME impacting Mercury and the experi