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FORECAST SOL: Moderate 
MAG: Normal 
ION: Normal
MAG: Normal ION: Normal
Space Weather Conditions
Summary Forecast
Monday 11 May
last updated 10/2320 UT
Solar flare activity on UT day 11-May is expected to be at R1-R2 levels. S0 solar proton conditions are expected, with a chance of S1. The solar wind speed is expected to be light. G0 geomagnetic conditions are expected. HF radio propagation conditions are expected to be normal. Maximum Usable Frequencies (MUFs) in the Australian region are expected to be near predicted monthly values. Shortwave fadeouts are possible.
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2026-04-08Learmonth Solar Observatory Outage
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2025-09-15The Bureau of Meteorology is conducting essential maintenance. Services will be unavailable for up to two hours and 15 minutes outage on Tuesday 16 September 2025 from 12:30 am to 2:45 am AEST. During the maintenance period, some Bureau products and services may experience data delays during this time. Some space weather products will be unavailable or degraded during this time. We apologise for any inconvenience.
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2025-07-02Erroneous Aurora alert for 0023 UT 2 Jul- Please ignore. This alert was generated due to a data processing error that is being investigated.
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