The Sun experienced its strongest flare in two weeks

Solar activity continues to recover quite quickly after the dip in the middle of the month. We've just reached the M-flares stage—an M2.4 event is currently occurring in a new region to the south. The sunspot group, however, still remains unnumbered. More than 10 flares have occurred there in the past 24 hours, but the "region" field is blank: the spots are still below the horizon, so they haven't been assigned a number, so there's nothing to report. Yesterday, by comparison, there was only one flare on the entire Sun, and the day before, there were zero. This event isn't particularly strong, but formally, it's the largest flare since February 9th—the last flare ended around that time.

There's no comparison at this point with the solar storm at the beginning of the month, which saw six X-class flares. There's also no threat to Earth yet—all of this is very far away, at the very edge of the Sun. We'll have to see what happens next.