Posted on 08/31/2009 1:35:04 PM PDT by eastsider
“welcome sight”
Why? I suppose the only reason is if the sun produces more heat people might start believing the whole “global warming” bull again?
I was looking back through sunspot records and came across another year where there were very, very few sunspots. I think it was 1912 or 1913. Anyhow, the following winter was a doozy.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.
Wow. I didn’t know the sun was covered in shag carpet.
Sunspot Ping!
"welcome sight"Good catch! SpaceWeather tipped their hand.
Bah. That’s not a sunspot. It’s a Klingon battle cruiser augering in.
Maybe we should send a spaceship full of republicans into it as sort of a modern day sacrifice.
I had about 30 spots but I scraped all of them off. They were from the time I laughed at a FReeper joke with a mouthful of Ovaltine. Thanks for getting me to clean my screen.
From FReepmail. A really nice FReeper sent them to me.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/28/nasa-now-saying-that-a-dalton-minimum-repeat-is-possible/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/08/01/some-speculation-that-solar-cycle-25-has-already-begun/
Yes, thanks for the information
melissa
Thanks for the ping. I wonder if this one is just a late-blooming Cycle 23 sunspot.
if this active region consolidates into a true dark-cored sunspot, it will break a string of nearly 52 spotless days, one of the longest quiet spells of the current solar minimum
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Cold as a witches **** here tonight. Feels like October.
“Thanks for the ping. I wonder if this one is just a late-blooming Cycle 23 sunspot.”
Didn’t they have a sunspot that was opposite polarity to cycle 23 recently, and they promptly declared cycle 24 had begun?
Wonder what the polarity of this one will be; because, if I recall correctly, the article did say that a cycle has been skipped over before.
Cold as a witches **** here tonight. Feels like October.My guess ... New Hampshire
You're a mom and you still don't know what a missed cycle means?!?
In reality....
The sun's output is not constant, but rather varies with a period of 11 years. It has to do with periodic changes in the sun's magnetic field; every 11 years the sun's magnetic poles flip, and during those times the sun is very active -- it's when the big solar storms occur. Sunspots are far more common when the sun is active. There have been 25 such 11-year cycles since folks started really paying attention to sunspots.
Historically, long periods with very few sunspots have affected weather on Earth. The so-called "Maunder Minimum" from 1645-1715 was coincident with the "little ice age."
Other low-sunspot periods have also had lower temps. Probably not coincidentally, the sun has had a large number of sunspots, and temperatures are said to be higher over that period.
The current low-sunspot activity has gone on for several years now -- the start of the next solar cycle is almost 2 years late. It could be that we're in a minimum period, and can expect colder temps.
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