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Coronal hole faces Earth

The sunspots have gone silent so we shift our attention once again to coronal holes! Today we have an equatorial coronal hole facing our planet and the solar wind stream flowing from it could arrive at Earth in about 3 days from now.

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Current data suggests there is a slight possibility for aurora to appear at the following high latitude regions in the near future

Nuuk
Oulu, Rovaniemi, Sodankylä, Utsjoki
Reykjavik
Kirkenes, Tromsø
Murmansk
Kiruna, Luleå
The maximum X-ray flux of the past two hours is:
C8.36

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