Posted on 04/28/2018 3:34:26 PM PDT by centurion316
In March our supplier of energy was more inactive than in the previous months. The sunspot number was only 2,5, which is only 8% of what is normal for this month into the average cycle (month 112).Only solar cycles 5 and 6 were weaker.
A sunspot was detected only on 6 of 31 days.
An observation made on April 10, 2018, allowed us to say that at approximately 30° southern heliospheric latitude the SDO solar research satellite saw a tiny spot (it was too small to be officially counted as a sunspot) that certainly belonged to the next approaching solar cycle no. 25. Sunspots are magnetic phenomena. The thermally conveyed plasma at the sun’s outer layer generates electric currents. Each of these currents produces a magnetic field. Depending on the direction of the current, the magnetic field is polarized and changes on the sun with each change of cycle.
The SDO instrument is able to determine the polarity of the magnetic field for each sunspot, and provided this image:
Is that the end of cycle 24, some 20 months before the expected month no. 132?
Certainly not. And solar cycle 25 has yet to begin as more spots with the same SC 24 signature are still in the pipeline. Moreover solar cycle 24 could resemble the end of solar cycle 5,
The solar minimum has started
It can still take quite some time before the next cycle makes its debut. Whether the current solar cycle turns out to be both an especially weak one and a short one is still unknown. Historically weak solar cycles have lasted longer than strong ones, It is difficult to say if solar cycle 24 will be an exception. We’ll keep you up-to-date!
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Apparently they have never traveled great distances around the world. They should be required to get on a plane and travel east to west or west to east around the world and back.
unfortunately, just my yard... 8^)
They got an answer for everything. Some I think are just jerking peoples chains for their own entertainment.
In today’s Parade Magazine (it comes with the Sunday Paper), that Gal from MENZA Marilyn vos Savant is asked about the effect of the Sun Cycle on Globull Warming.
Here is the question and answer...
I have a specific question about one aspect of climate change. We know the sun is our source of energy, and that variations in solar activity have been responsible for past climate changes. But only relatively recently have we been able to measure its energy output. So how can we know that another variation is not responsible for much of the current global warming?
—Lauren Mickelson-Jones, Dallas, Texas
If increased solar activity were causing the warming, we would expect all layers of Earth’s atmosphere to be warmer. Instead, scientists have observed cooling in the upper atmosphere and warming in the lower atmosphere and at the surface of the planet.
That’s a new one...
This is what you would expect when you have a Journalism degree. Although, I doubt that Parade Magazine require Journalism degree, more than likely Dramatic Arts or Literature.
The Woman who writes the Column is a certified Genius, a MENSA Member on good standing.
It appears from doing some Internet searches, she isn’t necessarily correct in her responses on many occasions.
Dollar to a Donut she loves and Voted for Hillary...
Mensa members do not necessarily know how the atmosphere manages to capture solar radiation and turn it into heat. Probably devilish smart but profoundly ignorant.
Ya. Lol.
Funny how a period of low sun spots puts a crimp in the Globull warming deal.....
Scientists saying this Solar Grand Minimum May cause 50 years of cooler temperatures.
Maybe our grant-begging scientists will then pull out the 1975 idea (global cooling and crop failure was feared back then) of aerial dusting the polar icecaps with carbon black/ash to help warm the environment.
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