Solar physicists often speak of the sun's X-ray flux as being high, or low. Solar flares are like waves on the background ocean of the sun's X-ray flux.
Sun activity for the week of April 4 to 10, 2022. This week has been relatively quiet. But we had an unexpected (albeit brief) strong geomagnetic storm during the night of April 9-10.
Sun activity for the week of March 21 to 27, 2022. An M-class flare on March 26, 2022, sent out a "solar tsunami" aka as an EIT wave. Read more and see images here.