[Squidpup]

Either nothing or something big...

Apparently different than the current Sunspot 1024

[thinking]

3-day Solar-Geophysical Forecast issued Jul 06 22:00 UTC

Solar Activity Forecast: Solar activity is expected to be very low with a chance for an isolated C-class flare.

Geophysical Activity Forecast: Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at quiet levels during days 1 - 2 (07 - 08 July). Activity is expected to increase to quiet to unsettled levels on day 3 (09 July) due to an increase in solar wind velocities associated with a favorably positioned coronal hole.

[jongaltsr]

Oh my god. We are all going to die.

One "supposed" crises passes without the promised death and devastation so the logic must be - therefor - that the next made up crisis MUST be going to be much worse.

Remember this - we must be scared otherwise there is no reason to vote Democratic.

[TheWasteLand]

The sun is such an attention hog. Always up there in the sky shining garishly with its spots and flares, crying out, “oh look at me, I’m sooo much better than you.” What an ego...

[muawiyah]

http://www.solarcycle24.com/

[GOPJ]

This newest sunspot is thought to be 60 to 80 times the size of Earth and has occurred on the side of the sun, which is in view of Australia.

What?

[muawiyah]

NASA has been reporting plenty of little tiny sunspots so small that you can't see them by traditional means ~ in fact, they were detectible if and only if you consulted with NASA.

Based on those otherwise invisible sunspots NASA has been predicting the beginning of Solarcycle 24 for the LAST FOUR YEARS.

It's gonna' be huge, stupendous, biggest one in history, yadda, yadda, yadda ~ and then nothing.

Well, here it is ~ the big one ~ visible only from Australia (hidden from the rest of the world by thousands of miles of dirt I suppose.

Next a discussion of the double secret sunspot conveyor belts hidden behind the Sun's clouds.

[rsobin]

Is there a connection of sunspots to cow farts?

[Squidpup]

background on the head astronomer chap:
http://www.thedaily.com.au/news/2009/jan/02/new-year-bright-start/
"Bright lights might have been too much for some bloodshot and bleary eyes yesterday but others made the most of an opportunity to look at the brightest of them all. Four telescopes from Wappa Falls Observatory were set up at Coolum’s Point Perry and trained on the sun for passers-by to use to mark the first day of the International Year of Astronomy. The observatory’s Owen Bennedick organised the promotion “to start off the year with a big bang”. “And so that people can be fully reassured about why they’re so hot,” he said. Mr Bennedick said the four telescopes allowed people to look at the sun in different ways. His broad spectrum white light telescope offered a similar view to that seen by the human eye, but closer, and a hydrogen alpha light ‘scope allowed viewers to see prominences and “bubbles” on the sun’s surface. He said a CAK or Calcium K telescope allowed views up to 200km below the sun’s surface to where sun spots were forming, and an orange filter ‘scope also provided views of sun spots and other gas effects. “We’ve had quite a few people have a look,” he said. Mr Bennedick said the International Year of Astronomy would hopefully encourage people to investigate what Galileo Galilei started when he became the first person to use a telescope for astronomy 400 years ago. Mr Bennedick said 2009 would be a big year at the observatory, which had already taken possession of new telescopes. Various upgrades planned to areas, including the barbecues and planet walk, and a series of monthly concert evenings would raise money for charities."

[3niner]

Currently, sunspot activity is near a minimum. There would normally be dozens of sunspots visible in this picture.

[GreenHornet]

The normal surface is about 5000 degrees

Well, it's not the heat, it's the humidity.....

[Old Professer]

Don’t think so.

[Izzy Dunne]

has occurred on the side of the sun, which is in view of Australia.

It's a good thing it didn't occur on the side that's in view of the US !

[familyop]

"biggest and most powerful Sunspot ever seen..."

Okay. I'll be hookin' up with the sunspot network, getting photography equipment together and watching for the northern lights again!

[Iron Munro]

For those of you concerned about the horrible dangers of uncontrolled sunspot activity to the entire galaxy, I am selling “Sunspot Offsets” for a mere pittance.

Cash only, of course.

[PeteB570]

Somebody must be smokin’ some good weed ‘cause the only one up there is 1024 and it’s fading away.

[dead]

This newest sunspot is thought to be 60 to 80 times the size of Earth and has occurred on the side of the sun, which is in view of Australia.

The side of the sun that is in view of Australia is called "dinkumwally yop-yop" by the locals down under.

[FreepShop1]

A plume of fire will stretch 93 million miles to Mecca, and Obama’s eyes will glow with fire. Then you will know that the end of the world is at hand.

[Wuli]

"The sunspot will cause the Earth's atmosphere to heat up, potentially creating problems to powerlines, radio transmitters and delicate equipment such as mobile phones and computers."

Coinciding with the myth-makers "man-made" cause of a warming trend, scientists find the last 100 years witnessed major changes in the suns magnetic field (stronger by 230% than in 1901); and sunspot activity in the last cycle was greater than anything recorded in history.

If the sun, and its cycles and how its cycles affect every planet in the solar system, and not man-made CO2, WAS NOT the lead cause of "global warming" at this particular period of time, then how is earth-bound man-made CO2 the simultaneous cause of "global warming" (higher energy readings) evidenced on Mars, Neptune and its moons and even Uranus (higher luminoscity) and Pluto.

CO2, from nature or otherwise CANNOT create/produce - provide PRIMARY CAUSE FOR - a global earth warming or cooling trend. Only the Earth's primary source of heat, the Sun, can do that. The minimal "CO2" "green house" affect is always at the margins of global atmospheric temperature trends and cycles; trends and cycles vastly beyond its own ability to produce.

CO2 science is unhappily at a point where many non-scientific so-called scientists operate on the upside down, wrong headed maxim that correlation equals causation (it never does).

[familyop]

There aren't any space weather advisories, because we don't know, yet. Here's a pic.



And here's a page for finding stuff about the current sun conditions.

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

...and the service for space weather advisories.

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

[DallasMike]

What is this x12 stuff and the side of the sun that is visible from Australia? Call it a hunch, but I don’t think that this author got beyond third-grade science.