Viewing archive of Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Daily bulletin on solar and geomagnetic activity from the SIDC

Issued: 2020 Aug 05 1231 UTC

SIDC Forecast

Valid from 1230 UTC, 05 Aug 2020 until 07 Aug 2020
Solar flares

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

Geomagnetism

Quiet (A<20 and K<4)

Solar protons

Quiet

10cm fluxAp
05 Aug 2020073008
06 Aug 2020073011
07 Aug 2020072008

Bulletin

Solar flaring activity is low, with only one B-class flare reported during last 24 hours. However, as the NOAA AR 2770 presently has beta configuration of its photospheric magnetic field, it might be the source of B-class and also isolated C-class flares in the coming hours. During last 24 hours there were no Earth directed CMEs and the solar protons remained at the background level. Although Earth is still inside the fast solar wind, the wind speed has strongly decreased during last 24 hours and its present value is 510 km/s. The interplanetary magnetic field magnitude is about 3 nT. The fast solar wind associated with the equatorial coronal hole of positive polarity that has reached central meridian in the morning of August 03, can be expected at Earth tomorrow. The geomagnetic conditions are presently quiet, and we expect quiet to unsettled conditions in the coming hours.

Today's estimated international sunspot number (ISN): 012, based on 20 stations.

Solar indices for 04 Aug 2020

Wolf number Catania///
10cm solar flux073
AK Chambon La Forêt011
AK Wingst009
Estimated Ap009
Estimated international sunspot number011 - Based on 30 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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