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Kp-index

Probability forecast
Today Active Minor Severe
High latitude 15% 30% 30%
Middle latitude 25% 5% 1%
Kp-index forecast
Predicted maximum
Today Kp3
Tomorrow Kp3
The day after tomorrow Kp2
Kp-index Aurora forecast
Kp-index The Low, Middle and High Latitude

Auroral oval

Aurora map
North America Europe and Asia South-America and Eastern Pacific Africa and Australia
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Hemispheric Power
Northern hemisphere 11 GW
Southern hemisphere 11 GW

Real Time Solar Wind

With the current speed, it will take the solar wind 61 minutes to propagate from DSCOVR to Earth.

Solar wind

Speed: 411.1 km/sec
Density: 8.05 p/cm3

Interplanetary Magnetic Field

Bt: 6.6 nT
Bz: 0.22 nT (North)
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The solar wind The Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF)

Disturbance Storm Time index

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Magnetometers

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Magnetometer stackplots of TGO, DTU Space and FMI
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USGS stackplot
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Moon phase


Full Moon
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Sunspot regions

Solar Dynamics Observatory HMI Continuum
Sunspot number0
New regions0
10.7cm Solar Radio Flux69 1
Sunspot regions
RegionNumber of
sunspots		Class
Magn. 		Class
Spot
There are no sunspot regions on the earth-facing solar disc today
Regions due to return
Region Lat.
None
H-alpha plages without spots
Region Location
None
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Solar flares

SDO AIA 131
M-class solar flare 1%
X-class solar flare 1%
Solar activity past two hours
Current value
A0.245
2h max
A0.893
24h max
A1.4
Events on the Sun today
Region Start Maximum End
None
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Coronal holes

SDO AIA 211
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Coronal mass ejections

SOHO LASCO C2
SOHO STEREO
What is a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)? How do we know if a CME is Earth directed and when it's going to arrive?

Solar protons

≥10 MeV solar protons
3 days Info Help
Electron, Proton, and Alpha Monitor (EPAM)
2 hours 6 hours 24 hours 3 days 7 days
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Far side

EUVI/AIA 195 Stonyhurst Heliographic (Earth-view)
Animated GIF STEREO SDO
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Last X-flare:2017/09/10X8.2
Last M-flare:2017/10/20M1.0
Last geomagnetic storm:2018/09/22Kp5 (G1)
Number of spotless days in 2018:153
Current stretch spotless days:13

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