[HCARC] Large Flare

[Kerry Sandstrom]

Gang,

The solar flux has been over 210 for the last 2 days.  About an hour ago 
there was a large X2 flare.  Since we are currently in darkness, it 
won't be too bad for us but we are unlikely to hear any signals from the 
daylight side of the earth due to absorption in the ionosphere caused by 
the flare.  The sunspot group that has given us the high solar flux the 
last few days is now past the center of the sun.  I only see one small 
sunspot group on the rising side of the sun.  I expect that the solar 
flux will be around 200 for the weekend and then will start dropping.  
If we have more large flares, daytime conditions will be poor because of 
absorption but night should be OK.

Kerry