*********************************************************************** Product: Daily Forecast of Geomagnetic Activity Issued: 2019 January 30 08:55UTC Prepared by the Athens Space Weather Forecasting Center *********************************************************************** 1. Solar activity Solar activity was increasing during the past 24 hours. Solar Flux (10.7 cm) measured on 29.01.2019 at 20:00 UTC was 73 sfu. The background X-Ray flux is at the class A8 level. The geomagnetic field was at very quiet levels on January 29. No obviously Earth directed CMEs were observed in available LASCO imagery. The Kp index now is at very quiet levels with Kp=0. 2. Solar Wind Geomagnetic Activity Solar Wind speed from ACE: 290 km/s. Solar Wind speed from STEREO A: 440 km/s. Solar Wind speed from STEREO B: --- km/s. The southward component Bz is: 1 nT north. 3. Solar Energetic Particle Events Protons and electrons are quiet. 4. Coronal Holes A new equatorial coronal hole (CH905) will be in Earth facing position on January 26-31. A high speed stream of solar wind is expected to reach Earth on the second half of January 30. 5. Geophysical Activity Forecast The geomagnetic field is expected to be at very quiet to unsettled levels on January 30 and at quiet to active levels, with a chance for minor storm intervals, on January 31 - February 1 due to CH905 effects. Date Estimated Ap index Expected geom. storm 2019.01.30 05 - 2019.01.31 12 - 2019.02.01 14 - *************************************************************************** Athens Space Weather Forecasting Center Physics Department, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens Neutron Monitor Station A.NE.MO.S Tel.: +30 210 727 6901 email: spaceweather@phys.uoa.gr URL: http://spaceweather.phys.uoa.gr ***************************************************************************