Weather warning: Earth could be hit by MINI ICE-AGE as Sun ‘hibernates’ (only 10.96 years left)

Express ^ | 2/03/20 | SEAN MARTIN

[Libloather]

Sunspot activity on the surface of the Sun follows a well-known but little understood 11 year cycle. Activity rises and falls creating the so-called solar maximum and then solar minimum. During a solar maximum, the Sun is more powerful and is littered with sunspots.

Conversely when the Sun enters a solar minimum – which it did about two years ago - energy from our host star begins to lessen.

However, one expert has warned that the Sun will enter a period of “hibernation” this year, in what as known as a Grand Solar Minimum (GSM).

**SNIP**

“The reduction in temperature will result in cold weathers on Earth, wet and cold summers, cold and wet winters.”

“We will possibly get big frosts as is happening now in Canada where they see [temperatures] of -50C.

NASA warns of ‘MONSTER’ solar flares which could hit in ‘FEW YEARS'

Space weather: NASA predicts next solar maximum will peak on THIS date “But this is only the start of GSM, there is more to come in the next 33 years.”

The last GSM, which comes around roughly every 400 years, came in the 17th century.

Research produced by NASA indicated during this last prolonged solar minimum the cooling temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were indeed exacerbated by that Maunder minimum.

In 2006, NASA said: “From 1650 to 1710, temperatures across much of the Northern Hemisphere plunged when the Sun entered a quiet phase now called the Maunder Minimum.

[infool7]

Thanks! Great Info.

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[PrairieLady2]

I guess that means I’ll be growing kennebec potatos, peas, brassicas, lettuce....instead of watermellon, cantelopes, and yams. You just learn to work with nature.

[mountn man]

Dubai already has one