Viewing archive of Sunday, 30 April 2017

Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2017 Apr 30 1242 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 30 Apr 2017 until 02 May 2017
Solar flares

Quiet conditions (<50% probability of C-class flares)

Geomagnetism

Quiet (A<20 and K<4)

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
30 Apr 2017076008
01 May 2017075006
02 May 2017074006

Bulletin

Solar activity is very low and only one B-class flare was reported during last 24 hours. The long duration B3.0 flare (peaking at 00:57 UT on April 30) originated from the Catania sunspot group 18 (NOAA AR 2653). The flare was associated with the on disc CME signatures, EIT wave and coronal dimming. Presently available coronagraph images show that associated CME had angular width of about 90 degrees and as such it is not very probable that it will arrive at the Earth. No Earth directed CMEs have been observed and the solar protons remained at background level in the past 24 hours.

The Earth is presently inside the slow solar wind with the speed of about 390 km/s, and the interplanetary magnetic field magnitude has the value of about 3nT. The geomagnetic conditions are quiet and we expect them to remain so in the coming hours.

As we expect flaring activity to be below the C-class level, quiet geomagnetic conditions and no particle events, we will issue the all quiet alert.

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 024, based on 21 stations.

Solar indices for 29 Apr 2017

Wolf number Catania///
10cm solar flux077
AK Chambon La Forêt011
AK Wingst008
Estimated Ap008
Estimated international sunspot number034 - Based on 32 stations

Noticeable events summary

DayBeginMaxEndLocStrengthOP10cmCatania/NOAARadio burst types
None

Provided by the Solar Influences Data analysis Center© - SIDC - Processed by SpaceWeatherLive

All times in UTC

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