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Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA

Space Weather Advisory Outlooks, issued every Monday, provide general descriptions of conditions during the past week and an outlook for the next 7 days.


SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #13-19
2013 May 13 at 1:52 a.m. MDT (2013 May 13 0752 UTC)

**** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK ****

Summary For May 6-12

R1 (minor) radio blackouts were observed on 10 May from Region 1745 and on 12 May from a region beyond the east limb.

Outlook For May 13-19

R1 (minor) and R2 (moderate) radio blackouts are likely with a chance for R3 (strong) radio blackouts or greater during the outlook period.

For current space weather conditions see: Space Weather Now, Today's Space Weather and Space Weather Alerts


SWPC Outlooks issued in the past 4 weeks


The Space Weather categories used in the Advisory products are explained at NOAA space weather scales.

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Data used to provide space weather services are contributed by NOAA, USAF, NASA, NSF, USGS, the International Space Environment Services and other observatories, universities, and institutions.

Each type of advisory message has its own reference number; the last two digits of the current year and a sequential message number.

Dates and times are Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) or Mountain Standard Time (MST) followed by Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The difference between Mountain and Universal times are MDT + 6 hours = UTC or MST + 7 hours = UTC.

More information is available at SWPC's Web site or (303) 497-5127.

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