During my daily web browsing, I saw this note about today’s solar activity on SpaceWeather.com:
(ALMOST NO) CHANCE OF FLARES:
Two sunspots facing Earth (AR1934 and AR1936) have ‘beta-gamma’ magnetic fields that harbor energy for strong flares. Both sunspots have been quiet for days, however, and they show no signs of an imminent eruption. This has prompted NOAA forecasters to place low odds on flares today: a 25% chance of M-flares and a 1% chance X-flares.
I took the above image today of the sun and annotated it with sunspot numbers for those visible to my camera. Click on the image to enlarge.