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Product: Daily Forecast of Geomagnetic Activity
Issued: 2023 April 14 10:48UTC
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 13.04.2023 at 20:00 UTC was 160 sfu.
The background X-Ray flux is at the class C1.8 level.
The geomagnetic field was at quiet to unsettled levels on April 13.
No obviously Earth directed CMEs were observed in available LASCO imagery.
The Kp index now is at quiet levels with Kp=2.

2. Solar Wind Geomagnetic Activity
Solar Wind speed from ACE: 349 km/s.
Solar Wind speed from STEREO A: 400 km/s.
Solar Wind speed from STEREO B: - km/s.
The southward component Bz is: 5 nT south.

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

4. Coronal Holes

5. Geophysical Activity Forecast
The geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to unsettled levels on April 14-16.

   Date      Estimated Ap index      Expected geom. storm
2023.04.14           08                        -
2023.04.15           08                        -
2023.04.16           08                        -

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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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