The solar astronomers at NASA are desperate for Solar Cycle 24 to get underway. About a week ago an article ran about how plasma currents had reached a magic latitude that should jump-start sunspot production.
Today, we've now completed a seven day streak with no sunspots. That is completely typical behavior for a minimum, and possibly the beginning of another extended stretch with no spots. Also bear in mind that in the early part of the record (Maunder minimum) there were just a few small telescopes and astronomers monitoring the Sun from Europe, not many multi-meter devices scattered around the Earth along with space-based instruments. It was also only during the European day, not 24 hours as it is today. Many small solar events might have gone unnoticed due to weather, inferior equipment or just no one viewing at the right time.
As the minimum continues on towards winter, I can't help but think it's going to be even colder than '08.
No-Ho from Soho.
Its been down into the 50s at night here in southern Michigan for a few nights now. It was cold this time last year as well.
Damn that Sun's global warming!!
I bought a few tomato plants called “July the Forth” this year. Supposedly, they were is a super-early Early Girls, and would produce tomatoes in time for your Independence Day BBQ.
Well, here in NJ, it just ain’t happening. I barely have flowers on them, and the fourth is only a few days away.
Where did the Sun go? My tomatoes need sun!
Another sign of a sharp cooling ahead are an unusual double layer of high stratus clouds that have been coming and going for about a month. They are absorbing UV rays that normally heat the Earth.
I think the fascists are aware of this coming cooling which explains why they are so desperate to get this awful legislation done right now.
Shucks! and I just rented a Beach house at Prodhue Bay since the Owner said he finally had installed Air Conditioning due to the ever increasing Global Warming and Melting of the Ice cap!:-)
The term we should all be using is “Second summer of the Second Little Ice Age”; that is what’s going on. How stupid do you have to be to pass a crippling “global warming” bill in the Second Summer of the Second Little Ice Age?
Seeing g-hosts in the sun?
I think some of the lowest counts ever seen were from 1911-1913. And 1914 was a bear.