flares ‘a’comin’

  the Sun is not quiet. It is brewing up a storm. Go to www.spaceweather.com … and just beyond the Sun's eastern horizon it is crackling. Image taken from NASAs Solar Dynamics Observatory on 21st December, the longest night of the year (in our neck of the woods). The crackling monster will rotate over towards a more direct location in the coming days – just in time for Christmas.