Viewing archive of Wednesday, 10 January 2018

Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2018 Jan 10 1230 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 10 Jan 2018 until 12 Jan 2018
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

Quiet (A<20 and K<4)

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
10 Jan 2018070007
11 Jan 2018070005
12 Jan 2018069009

Bulletin

Solar activity remains to be very low without any flares reported during last 24 hours. The only active region observed on the visible side of the Sun, NOAA AR 2694 is decaying and it has presently alpha configuration of its photospheric magnetic field. We expect that this very low solar activity will persist in the coming hours. There were no Earth directed CMEs observed during last 24 hours, and the solar protons are at background level. Solar wind speed is slowly decreasing and it is presently about 470 km/s. The interplanetary magnetic field magnitude is stable having the value of 3 nT. The fast solar wind associated with the coronal hole (between N05 and N30) which reached central meridian yesterday morning might be expected at the Earth late on January 12. The geomagnetic conditions are quiet and we expect them to stay so in the coming hours.

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 023, based on 05 stations.

Solar indices for 09 Jan 2018

Wolf number Catania///
10cm solar flux071
AK Chambon La Forêt012
AK Wingst010
Estimated Ap010
Estimated international sunspot number011 - Based on 10 stations

Noticeable events summary

DayBeginMaxEndLocStrengthOP10cmCatania/NOAARadio burst types
None

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

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