What. A. Day! The third strongest solar flare of the solar cycle occurred a few hours ago! Unfortunately there wasn’t much of a CME and nothing major is forecasted to hit Earth (if at all). The region responsible for this activity, AR 4366, remains active and may produce another large flare soon! The sunspot group is moving to a more earth-directed position in the next few days. While the CME today was not directed towards Earth, future flares may launch CME that have a stronger Earth-directed c