Well it looks like the real “Big Daddy”  of the solar system has come alive again , I was beginning to wonder if we would see any more action out of our Star performer , the highly publicized solar cycle 24 was supposed to be the show of a lifetime , however it’s turned out to be a box office dud.

Then promoters said … wait , it could be a double peak cycle , so lately we have all been waiting for that second peak to kick in , maybe this it , although every time the sunspots become earth facing they fall apart on stage , it’s as if they are suffering from performance anxiety .

So here we are nearing the end of the solar cycle 24 , you know , the one that was supposed to herald the end times, and the only thing that seems to have ended is solar activity , which is why I was pleasantly surprised this week to see the uptick in Solar flaring , we have had at least half a dozen M class flares and 2 X flares in the last 72 hours or so , and it looks like we have at least some earth directed energy coming our way from the Coronal Mass Ejections that were released.
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