*********************************************************************** Product: Daily Forecast of Geomagnetic Activity Issued: 2020 January 14 07:04UTC Prepared by the Athens Space Weather Forecasting Center *********************************************************************** 1. Solar activity Solar activity was decreasing stable during the past 24 hours. Solar Flux (10.7 cm) measured on 13.01.2020 at 20:00 UTC was 72 sfu. The background X-Ray flux is at the class < A1 level. The geomagnetic field was at very quiet levels on January 13. 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: 340 km/s. Solar Wind speed from STEREO A: --- 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 coronal hole (CH949) was in Earth facing position on January 10-11. Up to now this CH it was not a geoeffective one. 5. Geophysical Activity Forecast The geomagnetic field is expected to be at very quiet to active levels on January 14-15 and at quiet to unsettled levels on January 16 due to CH949 effects. Date Estimated Ap index Expected geom. storm 2020.01.14 07 - 2020.01.15 11 - 2020.01.16 06 - *************************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************************