Viewing archive of Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2016 Oct 19 1230 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

Quiet (A<20 and K<4)

Solar protons

Quiet

	10cm flux	Ap
19 Oct 2016	078	011
20 Oct 2016	079	010
21 Oct 2016	078	010

Bulletin

Over the past 24 hours solar activity has been low. there were no significant flares and all Active Regions (AR) have shown low levels of activity. No Earth directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) have been detected. Solar protons have remained at background levels over the past 24 hours. Solar activity is expected to remain low over the next 24 hours with a low probability of C-class flares. The solar wind speed has been slowly decreasing from around between 650 to 500 km/s over the past 24 hours. The total magnetic field strength has remained around 3 nT. The Bz component fluctuated around 1 nT, ranging between -2 and +2 nT. Geomagnetic conditions ranged between Kp index 1-3 (NOAA) and local K index 1-3 (Dourbes) over the past 24 hours. Geomagnetic conditions are expected to be quiet to unsettled over the next 24 hours.

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 035, based on 04 stations.

Solar indices for 18 Oct 2016

Wolf number Catania	037
10cm solar flux	077
AK Chambon La Forêt	015
AK Wingst	010
Estimated Ap	011
Estimated international sunspot number	029 - Based on 20 stations

Noticeable events summary

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