[ips-sf] IPS Summary Forecast for 27 December - issued 0045UT/27-Dec-2015 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[rwc]

Solar activity during the past 24 hours was at low levels with only
C-class flares, which were all from Region 2473. This region is
currently located at S22E13 and would soon be approaching a more
direct earth facing position. As anticipated, the coronal mass
ejection (CME) associated with eruption from Region 2473 at 24/0636 UT
appear to have caused a weak enhancement in solar wind conditions at
Earth around 26/2000 UT. The solar wind peaked to 640 km/s at the
arrival of the shock. The current solar wind speed is near 500 km/s. A
favourable IMF Bz condition may lead to aurora sightings from Tasmania
during the local night. Conditions for HF radio wave propagation are
good and MUFs are slightly higher than the predicted monthly values.

Space Weather Services              email: asfc at ips.gov.au
Bureau of Meteorology
PO Box 1386                         WWW: http://www.sws.bom.gov.au
Haymarket NSW 1240  AUSTRALIA       FTP: ftp://ftp-out.sws.bom.gov.au
tel: +61 2 9213 8010                fax: +61 2 9213 8060 

IMPORTANT: This e-mail, including any attachments, may contain,
confidential or copyright information.  The views expressed in 
this message are those of the individual sender, unless 
specifically stated to be the views of IPS.  If you are not 
the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately 
and delete all copies of this e-mail and attachments. 
To unsubscribe from an IPS mail list either send an email to 
"MAIL_LIST"-leave at ips.gov.au or go to
http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/mailman/listinfo/"MAIL_LIST".
Information about training can be obtained from
http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/mailman/listinfo/ips-training.
General information is available from
http://www.sws.bom.gov.au/mailman/listinfo/ips-info.