Solar activity increasing

Very Strange!!

Apparently these sunspots have a magnetic polarity consistent with the last cycle (23).

Its about time the sun started earning its keep.

Cant wait to get out and have a look.

I don't know what the weather forecast is like for the next few days, but we (our part of the northern hemisphere "we") always seem to get adverse weather when a flare is thrown our way. Has anyone heard if greater-than-normal aurorae have been seen further north at all?

Seanie.

Seanie i was just gonna ask if anyone had spotted any northern lights.

Maybe its too early in the suns new cycle for then to reach us here?

Hell i didnt even know they could be seen from Ireland til my nephew told me a couple of years ago he saw them.

Maybe its too early in the suns new cycle for then to reach us here?
Hell i didnt even know they could be seen from Ireland til my nephew told me a couple of years ago he saw them.

Not early at all PJ. If a decent enough flare is ejected from the Sun in our direction, it's just a matter of it's strength maintaining momentum to get here, and swamp our northern magnetic pole, thus producing aurorae further south of the pole than normal. It is rare that an aurora can be seen from Ireland, but when one does, it is (almost always) a case of showing just how strong that associated outburst from the Sun actually was.

Seanie.

If a decent enough flare is ejected from the Sun in our direction, it's just a matter of it's strength maintaining momentum to get here, and swamp our northern magnetic pole, thus producing aurorae further south of the pole than normal. It is rare that an aurora can be seen from Ireland, but when one does, it is (almost always) a case of showing just how strong that associated outburst from the Sun actually was.

Can't/won't argue with that.