“”I don’t know who wrote this hogwash but it is absolute BS on a Solar magnitude.””
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Prolonged Sunspot Drought Ends as New Spots Appear
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
After one of the longest sunspot droughts in modern times, solar activity picked up quickly over the weekend.
A new group of sunspots developed, and while not dramatic by historic standards, the spots were the most significant in many months.
“This is the best sunspot I’ve seen in two years,” observer Michael Buxton of Ocean Beach, Calif., said on Spaceweather.com.
Solar activity goes in a roughly 11-year cycle. Sunspots are the visible signs of that activity, and they are the sites from which massive solar storms lift off.
The past two years have marked the lowest low in the cycle since 1913, and for a while scientists were wondering if activity would ever pick back up.
The new set of spots, named 1024, is kicking up modest solar flares.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530275,00.html
So “modest” has become the new mega?
As the local weather folks tell us just about every summer, a single thunderstorm cannot be called a drought-ender.