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Product: Daily Forecast of Geomagnetic Activity
Issued: 2015 January 16 08:14UTC
Prepared by the Athens Space Weather Forecasting Center
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1. Solar activity
Solar activity was almost stable during the past 24 hours.
Solar Flux (10.7 cm) measured on 15.01.2015 at 20:00 UTC was 131 sfu.
The background X-Ray flux is at the class B5 level.
The geomagnetic field was at quiet levels on January 15.
No obviously Earth directed CMEs were observed in LASCO imagery.
The Kp index now is at unsettled levels with Kp=3.

2. Solar Wind Geomagnetic Activity
Solar wind speed from ACE: 380 km/s.
Solar wind speed from STEREO A: --- km/s.
Solar wind speed from STEREO B: --- km/s.
The southward component of Bz is: 0.4 nT north.

3. Solar Energetic Particle Events
Protons and electrons are at quiet levels.

4. Coronal Holes
None coronal hole is currently in the visible solar disk.

5. Geophysical Activity Forecast
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on January 16-17 and quiet to active levels on January 18.

    Date         Estimated Geomagnetic Ap index
2015.01.16                      8
2015.01.17                      9
2015.01.18                      12

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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
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