Geomagnetic disturbances and coronal rays

The cause of 92 geomagnetic disturbances in the period of 1997 - 2003 was analyzed. There were used data from LASCO C3 instrument from SOHO satellite, SOHO LASCO CME Catatalog, and the daily average indices Ap. In this contribution we proposed to search sources of the geomagnetic storms taking into account the old idea by Newkirk and Bohlin (1965). According to this idea a solar coronal streamer can cause geomagnetic disturbance when it crosses the Earth's space.