A new sunspot region is now rotating into view and it is active. It already managed to produce three low-level M-class events (R1-minor) in just 24 hours. It started yesterday with an M1.1 solar flare and this morning it produced an M3.0 solar flare at 04:57 UTC and a very long duration M1.5 solar flare a 08:15 UTC.
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Last X-flare | 2024/05/15 | X2.9 |
Last M-flare | 2024/05/15 | M3.2 |
Last geomagnetic storm | 2024/05/13 | Kp6 (G2) |
Spotless days | |
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Last spotless day | 2022/06/08 |
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April 2024 | 136.5 +31.6 |
May 2024 | 151.7 +15.2 |
Last 30 days | 176.8 +77.8 |