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Two small coronal holes faces Earth

Solar activity remains at low levels as we only have one numbered sunspot region on the Earth-facing solar disk. Most of the geomagnetic activity at Earth thus has to come from coronal holes and today we have yet another coronal hole facing our planet.

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