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Product: Daily Forecast of Geomagnetic Activity
Issued: 2020 April 15 05:36UTC
Prepared by the Athens Space Weather Forecasting Center
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1. Solar activity
Solar activity was increasing during the past 24 hours.
Solar Flux (10.7 cm) measured on 14.04.2020 at 20:00 UTC was 69 sfu.
The background X-Ray flux is at the class < A1 level.
The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels on April 14. 
No obviously Earth directed CMEs were observed in available LASCO imagery. 
The Kp index now is at unsettled levels with Kp=3.

2. Solar Wind Geomagnetic Activity
Solar Wind speed from ACE: 415 km/s.
Solar Wind speed from STEREO A: 435 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
No obvious coronal holes are currently in the visible solar disk.

5. Geophysical Activity Forecast
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on April 15 and at mostly quiet levels on April 16-17.

   Date      Estimated Ap index      Expected geom. storm
2020.04.15           07                        -
2020.04.16           06                        -
2020.04.17           05                        -

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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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