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Radiation and Geomagnetic storms, which are elements of Space Weather, are part of the major obstacles for Space Operations. Reliable forecasting of the arrival of these dangerous elements is of vital importance for the orbiting flights and electric power distribution in near polar regions. In addition to the fleet of space-born instruments, worldwide networks of particle detectors spread along different latitudes and longitudes, provide valuable information on the intensity and anisotropy of the variable cosmic ray fluxes. Aragats Space-Environmental Center provides monitoring of the different species of secondary cosmic rays at two altitudes and with different energy thresholds. 1-minute data is available on-line from URL 〈 〉. We demonstrated the sensitivity of the different species of secondary cosmic ray flux to geophysical conditions, taking as examples extremely violent events of end of October – November 2003. Also we introduce the correlation analysis of the different components of registered time-series as a new tool for the classification of the geoeffective events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]