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ellarienThree, count them, three C-class flares on the UT version of the 16th. It was only two when I checked at lunchtime, and I was happy to be able to point them out during my talk. Maybe the Sun isn't going to be as active for a while as we've been used to for the last half-century, but at least it isn't as blank now as it has been for much of the year.
Of course, when we first announced the result I talked about today, at the SPD in June, the Sun kindly produced a nice little sunspot, complete with penumbra -- and then nothing at all for the next two or three months. I think I'm going to have to work that line about past results not being an indication of future performance into my next paper. Except in broad and rough outline, the Sun doesn't really repeat itself -- and those rough repeats are long enough that we only get three or four of them per career.
Of course, when we first announced the result I talked about today, at the SPD in June, the Sun kindly produced a nice little sunspot, complete with penumbra -- and then nothing at all for the next two or three months. I think I'm going to have to work that line about past results not being an indication of future performance into my next paper. Except in broad and rough outline, the Sun doesn't really repeat itself -- and those rough repeats are long enough that we only get three or four of them per career.