Another way to examine the length and depth of a solar minimum is by counting spotless days. A “spotless day” is a day with no sunspots. Spotless days never happen during Solar Max but they are the “meat and potatoes” of solar minima.
Adding up every daily blank sun for the past three years, we find that the current solar minimum has had 362 spotless days (as of June 30, 2008).Compare that value to the total spotless days of the previous ten solar minima: 309, 273, 272, 227, 446, 269, 568, 534, ~1019 and ~931. The current count of 362 spotless days is not even close to the longest."
Anything to portend doom. They didn't mention the proto-spot of last week with polarization indicating it was cycle 24 field.
Does that come with an English translation?
Now we can add another 60 or so.
True, they didn’t. So what.
The MSM ignores the impact of the interrelationship between the two sphere’s magnetic fields, and their cycles, on the earth’s climate. Why is that? Oh ... b/c Gore and IPCC have fully accounted for it....right?
Cycle 23 is now 147 months long, and still counting.
The few cycle 24 spots that have appeared thus far don’t change that count at all.
The previous 5 cycles averaged 125 months long.
This cycle IS longer than any we’ve had since 1950 - and length of cycle DOES correlate highly with the Earth’s temperature. Minimizing the importance of this solar cycle does a disservice to people.