Bill
From Space Weather.com
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MORE SUNSPOTS, LESS QUIET: The sun has been quiet for much of the past month. This could change as
two new sunspots emerge over the sun's eastern limb.
These new sunspots aren't very large, but at least one
of them is active. The dark cores inside the uppermost circle are
growing, and on June 4th they unleashed a C8-class solar flare.
Yes, that's right. The sun is so quiet that a C-class flare is newsworthy.
In fact, the C8-class flare
of June 4th was almost 10 times stronger than any flare in the past
month. This represents a genuine uptick in solar activity. If the
development of the sunspot proceeds apace, genuinely strong flares could
be in the offing. Stay tuned for less quiet.
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