We’re in a deep solar minimum...
we broke a lot of older records around here in SE WA state...
go to the NASA web page, note the years 1954 & 2009
A lot of the records that were broken were recorded back around 1954...
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/deepsolarminimum/centuryplot_gif2.gif
Look at 1944... I’m sure any of you WW2 vets that froze your butts off in the Ardennes would find that winter on the chart too...
Dad tells the story from his service in the Ardennes - he fell off his tank as it tipped over (a truck with a gun mounted on it and infantry hanging on for the ride) into a snow bank. Fortunately that the closest he came to becoming a casualty.
