Viewing archive of Thursday, 12 January 2017

Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2017 Jan 12 1236 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 12 Jan 2017 until 14 Jan 2017
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

Quiet (A<20 and K<4)

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
12 Jan 2017075007
13 Jan 2017076007
14 Jan 2017078007

Bulletin

Solar activity has been very low, no C-class flares in past 24h, an active region rotating into view from the eastern limb may increase activity.

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

Geomagnetic conditions have ranged between K=2 and K=3. Solar wind speed is now at 390 km/s with interplanetary magnetic fields of 5 nT. There is a small equatorial coronal hole that could still affect the Earth today, but K is not expected to go above 4.

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 011, based on 12 stations.

Solar indices for 11 Jan 2017

Wolf number Catania///
10cm solar flux075
AK Chambon La Forêt014
AK Wingst012
Estimated Ap010
Estimated international sunspot number000 - 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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The solar wind speed is currently moderately high (507.2 km/sec.)
The maximum X-ray flux of the past two hours is:
C5.34

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