[katana]

Winter is coming.

[smokingfrog]

How does one go about predicting sun spot activity? How far do records go back and how reliable are they?

[SubMareener]

Solar X-rays: Geomagnetic Field:

From n3kl.org

[Fzob]

Afterward, the Sun has been struggling along,.

Struggling along? What does that mean?

[Mouton]

Gee, who would have thought that hydrogen furnace in the sky would have anything to do with temperatures on earth?

[SierraWasp]

Check this out...

[blueunicorn6]

“But dat lucky ol’ sun got nuttin to do but roll around heaven all day.”

[blueunicorn6]

“But that lucky old sun got nothing to do but roll around heaven all day.”

[GBA]

We missed having a maximum level solar experience first hand recently and that didn't get much attention either:

Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided

[cookcounty]

Story elsewhere that this is the coldest summer in the arctic since they began to keep numbers....

...Get out that old parka, the 1950’s could be coming back.

It’a already a much cooler year in Colorado than last yesr (despite a June temperature bump up).

[mikrofon]

Astro Teacher: "Class, today we're going to look at Solis Proximam..."

Student: "Is that near the Big Dipper?"

[TBP]

Interesting. That would indicate cooling, which is what the current data indicate.

[Prospero]

The cosmic ray flux, perhaps one of the better gauges of the interplanetary magnetic field, is still in decline, in an inverse relation with an increase to solar activity.

That being admitted, the present attenuation is not yet half as deep a trough as was recorded during the last two solar maxima, particularly that seen in late spring 1991.

Of course, the present decline is a reduction from the highest ever recorded cosmic ray flux maximum coincident with the last solar minima around November 2009.