Solar activity has been at very low to low levels this past week. Solar wind parameters continued to be enhanced under positivepolarity coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS) influences. "Solar flare activity simultaneously decreased significantly, whileall sunspot groups moved to the western half of the solar disk. It willlikely contribute to increased geomagnetic activity, which, combinedwith relatively low solar activity, will have negative consequencesfor the state of the ionosphere. "Starting in the half of September, however, solar activity willbegin to increase, although not as significantly as it did inAugust.