In response to a question last weekend from The Darling Daughter about "one of the largest solar flares ever recorded" (to which my reply was, "huh, barely noticed"), here's a recent post discussing the matter over at Silicon Graybeard. TLDR: Yes, it was a big flare for the last decade, but not even close to record-setting over the last half-century, so don't believe the hype. Anyway, go read the article, there's a lot of informative interpretation and discussion of what's up and what to expect in the next few years. Here's a gratuitous graphic swiped from the above-linked post, which in turn was copy-pasted from NOAA's site.
Things are already pretty good, and the next couple of years are going to be even more radio-fun.
I used to dabble in radio condition fore/now-casting, but these days I just look at the band summaries here. Much less trouble, and generally more accurate than what I was coming up with.
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