This Week's Super Active Sun Could Disrupt Cell Phone, Radio, And GPS Communications (IAS)

TBI - AccuWeather ^ | 5-28-2013 | Samantha-Rae Tuthill, AccuWeather.com

[Charles Martel]

Fantastic.So instead of winding up in Hoboken, as intended, I might wind up in Guadalajara.

Only if you miss the left turn at Albuquerque.

[SamuraiScot]

I was about to remark that I don’t understand why we are having such cold miserable weather if the sun has been active with sunspots lately.

A lag between event and effect? You've got me curious, and I'll check it out. The phenomenon is very well documented at this point. The 11-year cycles (within large cycles, I think) have been followed since the 18th century.

[Bratch]

[Billthedrill]

Egad! Global warming causes sun activity? We’re all gonna die!

[spokeshave]

But remember: Solar flares can do all that, but they can't cause a spike in temperature or a warming cycle on earth.

The converse....

The Sun's magnetic field is in a long term decline mode.....

resulting in a decline in sunspot formation....

Thus global cooling....

[spokeshave]

[spokeshave]

(PhysOrg.com) — Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades. The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp

[spokeshave]

December 1776....nice ice blocks in the river....

[21twelve]

Thank you very much for posting that chart. I sure hope that NOAA didn’t plot that red line!

It reminds me of a Far Side cartoon IIRC where the scientist is explaining a complex equation and jumps to the end of the chalk board while saying “and then something happens”...

[21twelve]

If you look at the chart on post 23 you can see part of the picture. But if you search for solar cycles you can find longer term examples that show how the peaks of the “highs” have decreased over time. I imagine this cycle will peak between 50 and 75 or so. And also be shorter than the last one.