A Rather Unexpected M-Class Flare Just Popped Off..

From Solar Cycle 24 Excerpts:

02/09/2011 by Kevin VE3EN at 02:30Comment on Message Board
Solar Update - Solar activity has increased within the past 24 hours with C-Class flares and an M1.9 Solar Flare around growing Sunspot 1153. Unfortunately this region has picked the wrong time to get active. It will soon rotate onto the western limb and out of direct earth view. (This is unclear, as it would be good news if this active region rotated away from us, so I'm guessing "out of" should be "into." I'm also assuming the M-Class flare didn't effect us, as no mention was made to that effect.)

Several new sunspot groups have formed on the visible solar disk and were numbered 1154, 1155, 1156 and 1157. These regions are not yet capable of producing strong solar flares, but that could change.

These sunspot seem to have caught everyone off guard. It's development was sudden, and very quickly, an M-Class flare was produced. There are four active regions that are in the early stages of development, and rotating toward us(If I'm interpreting correctly..), so we could get some interesting solar activity activity coming up..