Last major update issued on November 5, 2007 at 05:40 UTC.
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The geomagnetic field was quiet on November 4. Solar wind speed ranged between 284 and 309 km/s (average speed was 295 km/s, decreasing 4 km/s from the previous day).
Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz was 68. The planetary A index was 3 (STAR Ap - based on the mean of three hour interval ap indices: 3.4). Three hour interval K indices: 10001122 (planetary), 10011111 (Boulder).
The background x-ray flux is below the class A1 level.
At midnight the visible solar disk was spotless (consecutive spotless days: 28). The solar flare activity level was very low. No C class events were recorded during the day.
November 2-4: No obvious fully or partly Earth directed CMEs were observed in LASCO imagery.
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 (CH298) is currently rotating into view at the southeast limb.
Processed STEREO-B 195 image at 00:15 UTC on November 5. The darkest areas on the solar disk are likely coronal holes.
Long distance low and medium frequency (below 2 MHz) propagation along paths north of due west over high and upper middle latitudes is good. Propagation on long distance northeast-southwest paths is poor.
Monitoring remarks from a location near N58E06: November 4: During the morning stations from the eastern half of the USA were audible with strong to very strong signals. A few west coast stations, like 1000 KOMO and 1510 KGA also had strong signals. In the evening east coast stations became audible just after 20h UTC with 1370 WDEA the earliest at 20:06. Signals improved slowly and didn't become fair to good until after 22h UTC. The best Trans Atlantic propagation sector was 270-310 degrees.
The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet on November 5-10.
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total spot count: | 0 | 0 | |||||
SSN: | 0 | 0 |
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) |
2006.09 | 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 | 12.0 (-0.1) |
2007.02 | 77.7 | 10.6 | 11.6 (-0.4) |
2007.03 | 72.2 | 4.8 | 10.8 (-0.8) |
2007.04 | 72.4 | 3.7 | 9.9 (-0.9) |
2007.05 | 74.4 | 11.7 | (8.7 predicted, -1.2) |
2007.06 | 73.7 | 12.0 | (7.5 predicted, -1.2) |
2007.07 | 71.6 | 10.0 | (6.7 predicted, -0.8) |
2007.08 | 69.1 | 6.2 | (6.2 predicted, -0.5) |
2007.09 | 67.1 | 2.4 | (6.2 predicted, +0.0) |
2007.10 | 67.4 | 0.9 | (6.7 predicted, +0.5) |
2007.11 | 67.7 (1) | 0.0 (2) | (7.3 predicted, +0.6) |
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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