Solar storms coming our way this week?

The Sun is getting back into the swing of things: a big active region on its limb erupted yesterday (October 10), sending out a small storm of subatomic particles into space. We weren't in the line of fire, but over the next few days the rotation of the Sun will bring Active Region 11112 closer to the center of the Sun's disk, and if that region erupts it may send a storm our way. Here's a recent image of the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory: