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10/26/2013 | NOAA Forecasts 70 Percent Chance of M-Class Solar Flares
High solar activity continues, with the possibility of some radio blackouts.
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10/25/2013 | Solar Activity is “High and Intensifying,” NOAA Says
NOAA reports radio blackouts have occurred over the past 24 hours.
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03/22/2013 | The K7RA Solar Update
This past week, the average daily sunspot numbers were up 16.2 points to 101.1, while the average daily solar flux remained about the same, rising from 118.5 to 119. An eruption on March 15 caused a coronal mass ejection (CME) that hit Earth on March 17,
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02/15/2013 | The K7RA Solar Update
Solar activity continues at the low levels that we have seen in the past few weeks. The sunspot numbers have been remarkably consistent, with the average daily numbers for the weeks since January 17 at 56.4, 55.7, 50.7 and finally 51.3 for this past week.
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01/13/2012 | The K7RA Solar Update
The average daily sunspot numbers were up this week by a tiny bit, from 88.1 to 90.6, while the average daily solar flux was down slightly, from 136.2 to 134.9. Sunspot numbers for January 5-11 were 99, 118, 110, 90, 90, 63 and 64, with a mean of 90.6. Th
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02/01/2010 | It Seems to Us: Where Are the Spots?Sunspots, that is. Those of us who follow solar activity the way most people follow the weather had expected that by now our Sun would have developed a nice pox. Instead, we seem to be stuck in a trough of low solar activity.
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01/15/2010 | The K7RA Solar Update
The recent sunspot activity that we've been experiencing remains strong. The weekly averages of daily sunspot numbers that we've been reporting over the past six weeks were 1.9, 21.1, 31.4, 21.9, 14.6 -- and now 26.4.
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08/21/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
The quiet Sun continues to baffle us. If there are no sunspots today -- and I don't expect any to emerge -- this will be the 42nd day in a row with no sunspots; July 10 was the last day we saw any spots. There is really no way to predict when the next sun
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