Viewing archive of Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2018 Nov 20 1234 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 20 Nov 2018 until 22 Nov 2018
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

Quiet (A<20 and K<4)

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
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21 Nov 2018072017
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Bulletin

Solar X-ray flux remained below B level. As NOAA region 2727 is in decay, chances for C-flares are further reduced and very low.

No Earth directed CMEs have been observed in coronagraph images.

Proton flux levels were at background values and are expected to remain so.

Solar wind went through a period of increased interplanetary magnetic field to just over 10nT which announced a period of rise in Solar wind velocity to currently close to 440 km/s. This is indicative of a mild influence from a high speed stream from the Southern negative polarity coronal holes. It remains to be seen if it's influence will set true more clearly. Slightly enhanced solar wind conditions are hence expected to continue.

Geomagnetic conditions were quiet to unsettled (NOAA Kp 0-3, and local K Dourbes 1-3) and are expected to continue under the slightly enhanced Solar wind conditions.

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 000, based on 04 stations.

Solar indices for 19 Nov 2018

Wolf number Catania///
10cm solar flux071
AK Chambon La Forêt010
AK Wingst006
Estimated Ap004
Estimated international sunspot number013 - Based on 09 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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