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Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2020 Oct 13 1230 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 13 Oct 2020 until 15 Oct 2020
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

Quiet (A<20 and K<4)

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
13 Oct 2020074005
14 Oct 2020074004
15 Oct 2020073004

Bulletin

Solar flaring activity is very low. The only sunspot group presently observed on the visible side of the solar disc, Catania group 44 (NOAA AR region 2775), was not source of the C-class or even B-class flares during last 24 hours. We expect such a low level of flaring activity to persist in the coming hours. During last 24 hours no Earth directed CMEs have been observed in coronagraph data, and proton flux levels remained at background values.

Earth is still inside the slow solar wind with the speed of around 300 km/s. The interplanetary magnetic field magnitude remains to have value of about 5 nT. The geomagnetic conditions are quiet, and we expect them to remain so in the coming hours.

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

Solar indices for 12 Oct 2020

Wolf number Catania///
10cm solar flux074
AK Chambon La Forêt006
AK Wingst004
Estimated Ap002
Estimated international sunspot number015 - Based on 23 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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