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Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2018 Apr 08 1230 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 08 Apr 2018 until 10 Apr 2018
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

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

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
08 Apr 2018067004
09 Apr 2018068010
10 Apr 2018067011

Bulletin

Over the past 24 hours solar activity has been low with no active regions on the solar disk. No flares have been recorded. No Earth directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) have been detected. The greater than 10MeV proton flux remained at background levels over the past 24 hours. A low latitude negative polarity coronal hole has crossed the central meridian two days ago. Solar activity is expected to remain low over the next 24 hours. Only B-class flares can be expected. Solar wind parametrs variations have been very low. The solar wind speed is below 385 km/s. The total magnetic field strength has fluctuated between 2nT and 5nT. The Bz component has fluctuated between -3.5nT and +4nT. Geomagnetic conditions ranged between Kp index 0-2 (NOAA) and local K index 0-2 (Dourbes) over the past 24 hours. Mostly quiet geomagnetic levels are expected for the whole day. Unsettled and even active conditions can be expected from tomorrow due to the influences of a high speed stream coming from the low-latitude negative polarity coronal hole.

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 000, based on 22 stations.

Solar indices for 07 Apr 2018

Wolf number Catania///
10cm solar flux067
AK Chambon La Forêt008
AK Wingst005
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

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Active geomagnetic conditions

Observed Kp: 4
Threshold reached: 22:46 UTC

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

Tórshavn
Reykjavik
Trondheim
Umeå
The direction of the interplanetary magnetic field is slightly South (-5.04nT).

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