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Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2019 May 22 1230 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 22 May 2019 until 24 May 2019
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

Quiet (A<20 and K<4)

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
22 May 2019068006
23 May 2019068009
24 May 2019067006

Bulletin

Over the past 24 hours solar activity has been low. The visible solar disc was spotless and the X-ray flux remained below B-class level. No Earth directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) have been detected in the available coronagraph imagery. The greater than 10MeV proton flux remained at background levels over the past 24 hours. Solar activity is expected to remain low over the next 24 hours.

The solar wind speed has fluctuated between around 345 and 405 km/s over the past 24 hours. The total magnetic field strength fluctuated between 0.6 and 5 nT. The Bz component ranged between approximately -3 and +3 nT. The phi angle was positive until 8 UT this morning (22 May) when it switched into the negative sector.

Geomagnetic conditions have been quiet over the past 24 hours, with Kp index (NOAA) and local K index (Dourbes) both ranging between 0 and 2. Quiet to unsettled geomagnetic conditions are expected over the next 24 hours, due to the weak solar wind stream associated with a series of small negative polarity coronal holes.

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 000, based on 19 stations.

Solar indices for 21 May 2019

Wolf number Catania000
10cm solar flux068
AK Chambon La Forêt008
AK Wingst004
Estimated Ap004
Estimated international sunspot number000 - Based on 29 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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