Current Space Weather

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Sunspots are solar magnetic storms. The spots appear darker because the temperature of the spots are lower than the surrounding photosphere.
They serve as a reservoir for solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which cause Aurorae, power/communication outages, and satellite anomalies.
The Sun's activity waxes and wanes in an 11-year sunspot cycle; Solar Minimum is when the number of sunspots are lowest.
There seems to be a correlation between Solar Min/Maximum and Earth's weather. The extent to which Ozone, stratospheric winds, global circulation patterns, and cloud seeding are all affected are still being studied.

Sunspot graph courtesy: Newquay Weather

Space Weather Dashboard

Interplanetary Magnetic Field

This Image Illustrates Solar Wind pressure on Earth's Magnetosphere.
Current Solar Wind Prediction

IMF Dials courtesy: MMS at Rice

These plots show real time Aurora Forecasts.

Radio Propogation

IPS Space Weather

Solar Activity Monitor

The monitor in the page heading provides a textual status of X-ray activity and refers to the X-Ray Flux graph at the top of the page.

NORMAL	Solar X-ray flux is quiet (<1.00e-6 W/m^2).
ACTIVE	Solar X-ray flux is active (>= 1.00e-6 W/m^2).
M CLASS FLARE	An M Class Solar Flare has occurred (>= 1.00e-5 W/m^2).
X CLASS FLARE	An X Class Solar Flare has occurred (>= 1.00e-4 W/m^2).
MEGA FLARE	An unprecedented X-ray event has occurred (>= 1.00e-3 W/m^2).

Script courtesy of: Lee, formerly hosting MadALwx.
Graph base code courtesy of: jpGraph.