Shouldn’t those red lines be shifted more to the right?
“Shouldn’t those red lines be shifted more to the right?”
Yes they should. In fact, in December we had three days out of thirty one with sunspots. That curve should be pegged at zero since 12/13, and we’re entering 2009 with an entirely blank Sun. (In fact, in my opinion compared with data from Galileo’s day probably only one day out of thirty one had a spot, since Galileo didn’t have satellite telescopes for observation.)
The solar minimum continues entirely unabated for now.
I believe they have been slightly shifted to the right twice now. The next shift will also have to lower the predicted peak activity significantly. December has averaged close to 0 sunspots, so the next dot on that graph is closer to 0 and demonstrates that the predictive curves have been significantly incorrect.