Lately I’ve been seeing articles and reports of solar flares from the Sun which have been occuring a lot (I think 7 happened in 2023 alone so far) and I do not recall this high a frequency in recent years (I may be mistaken or they weren’t reported as such). But do we know what is possibly causing these and what do we expect the overall impact to be, other than electronic blackouts and satellite communication failures etc?
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The sun has a roughly 11 year long cycle where it varies between high and low activity.
2023 is a peak year in that cycle. (With the last peak being around 2011/2012)
While I cant speculative on what will happen in the future. This has been happening for decades (possibly all of human history?) And we have been fine. So there isn’t anything unusual or unexpected about what’s happening.
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