Viewing archive of Monday, 15 October 2018

Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2018 Oct 15 1231 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 15 Oct 2018 until 17 Oct 2018
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

Active conditions expected (A>=20 or K=4)

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
15 Oct 2018072017
16 Oct 2018072010
17 Oct 2018072007

Bulletin

There are two active regions visible on the solar disk, with alpha magnetic field configuration and one sunspot each. No C-class flares in past 24 h. Solar activity is expected to remain at low levels.

No Earth directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) have been detected. Solar protons have remained at background levels over the past 24 hours.

The solar wind speed is at 620 km/s with interplanetary magnetic fields of 4 nT. The Earth is under the influence of a high speed solar wind stream. Geomagnetic conditions have been quiet to unsettled. For the next 48h unsettled to active periods can be expected (with isolated minor storm periods possible).

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 014, based on 14 stations.

Solar indices for 14 Oct 2018

Wolf number Catania///
10cm solar flux072
AK Chambon La Forêt014
AK Wingst008
Estimated Ap006
Estimated international sunspot number023 - Based on 25 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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