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Space Weather for January 17th, 2013: Heads up, fellas!!!

Geomagnetic Warning: Potentially Aurora overhead (visible at night) Geomagnetical activity: Strong storm activity Current Kp-Index: 7 (on a scale from 0-9); Forecasted Kp-Index: 6.67 maximum within the next 4 hours Your geomagnetic latitude is 51.9°. Aurora visiblity warnings are given for you only if Kp index is above 5.5. Sunspots Current SESC Sunspot Number 62 (low) Maximum within last 31 days: 07.01.2013 (196) Maximum within last 365 days: 07.01.2013 (196) Last day with higher Sunspot number: 15.01.2013 (120)

Auroral Activity ·Aurora Sightings· Activity Predictions· ·Solar-Geophysical Act· Alerts/Warnings· Current aurora borealis estimate from Space Environment Center Current activity on southern hemisphere.		Sun in White Light Todays SESC Sunspot Number: 62 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:00:00 UTC NASA/SDO Solar image processed by CalSky Current sunspot groups and NOAA regions.. Latest Fe XV image.		SOHO Solar Images ·Identify objects with our LASCO star map· Wide field solar corona images from satellite SOHO - ESA/NASA Inner solar corona image. The white circle represents the artificially covered (eclipsed) Sun.
Geomagnetic Disturbance: Global Kp Index 48-hour history of the Kp Index, a measure for the global geomagnetic disturbances, which affects the occurance of aurorae. 2-Month history of the Kp Index. Data from ACE spacecraft or USAF estimated 3-hour values (via NOAA).
Sunspot Numbers 24 month trend of SESC sunspot numbers. Also available: Graph of last 2 months. Trend of SESC sunspot numbers over about a bit more than one solar cycle. International sunspot numbers (updated monthly): Graph of last 2 years, 15 years, 50 years, 100, and 150 years.
World's Cloud Mask Synthetic rendering of Earth using current satellite mosaic.