[DBrow]

Predict away, but nobody predicted our current lack of sunspots, and nobody knows when that might end.

[jpl]

We're just a few weeks away from being more than one standard deviation beyond the normal length of a solar minimum.

I'm afraid that NASA and the NOAA aren't going to be able to successfully B.S. the public about this for too much longer.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Sun cycles were described back in the mid-19th century.

The current minimum is well within statistical projections.

It’s not even the longest this century.

But not according to the global warmers.

[LasVegasMac]

and nobody knows when that might end.

I do.

and I'm an expert!

Sept 4th.

[palmer]

The solar flux seems to have bottomed out in July and has been upticking slightly in August. Therefore I think July was the start of SC24 and we should see more SC24 spots by the end of the year. But the steepness of the rampup is still TBD.

[El Gato]

Predict away, but nobody predicted our current lack of sunspots, and nobody knows when that might end.

That same lack of sunspots was evident during the last "Little Ice Age", about 1650 to 1700. In sunspot terms it's called the "Maunder Minimum", but otherwise, it's the "little ice age", that was still being felt as late as the American Revolution, when Washington had to contend with ice flows on the Delaware, when he famously crossed it to attack the Hessians in New Jersey.