Last major update issued on July 14, 2007 at 04:45 UTC.
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The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled on July 13. Solar wind speed ranged between 403 and 450 km/s (average speed was 438 km/s, decreasing 94 km/s from the previous day).
Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz was 78.0. The planetary A index was 4 (STAR Ap - based on the mean of three hour interval ap indices: 3.6). Three hour interval K indices: 11000113 (planetary), 21111113 (Boulder).
The background x-ray flux is at the class A2 level.
At midnight there were 2 spotted regions on the visible solar disk. The solar flare activity level was very low. No C class events were recorded during the day.
Region 10963 decayed slowly and was quiet.
New region 10964 emerged in the northwest quadrant on July 12 and was
numbered the next day by NOAA/SEC.
July 11-13: No obvious fully or partly Earth directed CMEs were observed.
Coronal hole
history (since late October 2002)
Compare today's report to the situation one solar rotation ago:
28
days ago
27
days ago
26
days ago
A recurrent coronal hole (CH278) in the southeastern quadrant could rotate into a potentially geoeffective position on July 16-17.
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Processed SOHO/EIT 195 image at 19:48 UTC on July 13. The darkest areas on the solar disk are likely coronal holes.
Long distance low and medium frequency (below 2 MHz) propagation along east-west paths over high and upper middle latitudes is very poor. Propagation on long distance northeast-southwest paths is poor to very poor.
Monitoring remarks from a location near N58E06: July 14: There was no obvious propagation enhancement at LSR and very few stations with audio. Venezuela was heard on 1310 and 1500 kHz.
The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled on July 14 and quiet on July 15-17.
Coronal holes (1) | Coronal mass ejections (2) | M and X class flares (3) |
1) Effects from a coronal hole could reach Earth
within the next 5 days. When the high speed stream has arrived the
color changes to green.
2) Effects from a CME are likely to be observed at Earth within 96
hours.
3) There is a possibility of either M or X class flares within the next
48 hours.
Green: 0-20% probability, Yellow: 20-60% probability, Red: 60-100% probability.
Compare to the previous day's image.
Data for all numbered solar regions according to the Solar Region Summary provided by NOAA/SEC. Comments are my own, as is the STAR spot count (spots observed at or inside a few hours before midnight) and data for regions not numbered by SEC or where SEC has observed no spots. SEC active region numbers in the table below and in the active region map above are the historic SEC/USAF numbers.
Active region | Date numbered | SEC spot count |
STAR spot count |
Location at midnight | Area | Classification | Comment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10963 | 2007.07.07 | 11 | 12 | S06E01 | 0310 | EKC | classification was EAO at midnight, location: S04E00 |
10964 | 2007.07.13 | 7 | 14 | N04W30 | 0040 | CAO | formerly region S705 classification was DAI at midnight, area 0070, location: N04W28 |
Total spot count: | 18 | 26 | |||||
SSN: | 38 | 46 |
Month | Average solar flux at Earth |
International sunspot number | Smoothed sunspot number |
---|---|---|---|
2000.04 | 184.2 | 125.5 | 120.8 cycle 23 sunspot max. |
2000.07 | 202.3 | 170.1 | 119.8 |
2001.12 | 235.1 | 132.2 | 114.6 (-0.9) |
2006.05 | 80.9 | 22.3 | 17.3 (+0.2) |
2006.06 | 76.5 | 13.9 | 16.3 (-1.0) |
2006.07 | 75.7 | 12.2 | 15.3 (-1.0) |
2006.08 | 79.0 | 12.9 | 15.6 (+0.3) |
2006.09 | 77.8 | 14.4 | 15.6 (+0.0) |
2006.10 | 74.3 | 10.4 | 14.2 (-1.4) |
2006.11 | 86.3 | 21.5 | 12.7 (-1.5) |
2006.12 | 84.5 | 13.6 | 12.1 (-0.6) |
2007.01 | 83.3 | 16.9 | (11.9 predicted, -0.2) |
2007.02 | 77.7 | 10.6 | (11.3 predicted, -0.6) |
2007.03 | 72.2 | 4.8 | (10.8 predicted, -0.5) |
2007.04 | 72.4 | 3.7 | (10.8 predicted, unchanged) |
2007.05 | 74.4 | 11.7 | (10.6 predicted, -0.2) |
2007.06 | 73.7 | 12.0 | (10.7 predicted, +0.1) |
2007.07 | 74.6 (1) | 9.0 (2) | (11.0 predicted, +0.3) |
1) Running average based on the
daily 20:00 UTC observed solar flux
value at 2800 MHz.
2) Unofficial, accumulated value based on the Boulder (NOAA/SEC)
sunspot number. The official international sunspot number is typically
30-50% lower.
This report has been prepared by Jan Alvestad. It is based partly on my own observations and analysis, and partly on data from some of these solar data sources. All time references are to the UTC day. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
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