Viewing archive of Tuesday, 14 November 2017

Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2017 Nov 14 1230 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 14 Nov 2017 until 16 Nov 2017
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

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

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
14 Nov 2017073011
15 Nov 2017074015
16 Nov 2017075006

Bulletin

Solar activity remains to be low. The background X-ray flux has increased to a low B-level, due to appearance of the active region which rotated from the behind of the East solar limb. This, still not numbered active region, might be the source of B-class and possibly, but not very probably, also low C-class flares in the coming hours. During last 24 hours no Earth directed CMEs have been observed and the solar protons remained at background level. The solar wind speed is presently 380 km/s, and the interplanetary magnetic field magnitude is about 9 nT. The in situ observations (from DSCOVR satellite), showed sudden increase of the interplanetary magnetic field magnitude, density, temperature and the solar wind speed at about 00:48 UT this morning, indicating arrival of a shock wave. The shock is probably associated with the large filament eruption from the north-east quadrant of the Sun, which took place in the morning of November 10. The geomagnetic conditions are quiet to unsettled and we expect them to stay so in the coming hours with the possibility of the active geomagnetic conditions starting from this evening, due to expected arrival of the fast solar wind associated with with the low latitude extend of the northern polar coronal hole (reached central meridian in the early morning of November 11).

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 014, based on 15 stations.

Solar indices for 13 Nov 2017

Wolf number Catania000
10cm solar flux072
AK Chambon La Forêt014
AK Wingst006
Estimated Ap006
Estimated international sunspot number000 - Based on 27 stations

Noticeable events summary

DayBeginMaxEndLocStrengthOP10cmCatania/NOAARadio burst types
None

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G1 - Minor geomagnetic storm

Observed Kp: 5
Threshold reached: 23:19 UTC

Current data suggests there is a moderate possibility for aurora to appear at the following high latitude regions in the near future

Nuuk
Reykjavik

Current data suggests there is a slight possibility for aurora to appear at the following high latitude regions in the near future

Tórshavn
Oulu, Rovaniemi, Kuopio
Trondheim
Kiruna, Luleå, Sundsvall, Umeå
The solar wind speed is currently moderately high (561.6 km/sec.)
The strength of the interplanetary magnetic field is moderate (11.31nT), the direction is moderately South (-10.53nT).
The Disturbance Storm Time index predicts moderate storm conditions right now (-75nT)
The maximum X-ray flux of the past two hours is:
C5.75

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