It's a quiet time on the sun at the moment.  Normally, the sun goes through periods of activity and quietness, on an 11-year cycle.  At the moment it is quiet.  Very quiet.  The quietest time for 50 years!

This low activity is not good for aurora watchers as it causes a low solar wind speed and ultimately leads to less Aurora being seen.  For more information try this link:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm

AuroraWatch.ca is now working again.  Unfortunately it seems settings in our redirection service were altered, resulting in people's requests to view aurorawatch.ca being lost in the ether.  This has been corrected and should not occur again (famous last words!).