An interesting solar week ahead is shaping up. AR1667 is growing and has produced two C2 flares in the past 8 hours. Another bi-polar region is forming just to the west of AR1665.

AR1667 Growing-
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AR1667 Magnetogram-
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.24 hr Summary...
A C2 flare at 02/1958 UTC from Region 1667 (N23E49) as well as an
earlier C1 flare from Region 1665 (N10E09) brought solar activity to low
levels. Slight growth was observed in Region 1667 and it remained the
brightest region in GOES SXI imagery during the period. A sight uptick
in x-ray background was observed after 02/1400 UTC. Meanwhile, region
1663 (S09W52) showed signs of decay.

.Forecast...
Solar activity is expected to be very low with a continued chance for
C-class flares for the forecast period (03-05 Feb).
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

Latest GOES SXI image (not how the X-Rays are off the left edge of the image!):

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

The GINORMOUS AR1654 is returning now. Take a look at this ST. Behind 171a image from a few days ago and note how huge this region remains; the positive and negative poles are nearly 30 degrees apart!! And those magnetic loops are so big they're falling all over into the southern hemisphere.
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

For some reason this Gentle Giant has produced very few strong flares....so far. I can't wait to get a better look at it.
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