[HardStarboard]

Galileo started tracking sunspots 400 years ago in relation to crop yields and weather. The Farmers Almanac uses sunspot activity to provide long range forecast weather for farmers and have done so for over 100 years.

We seem to forget or ignore what our forefathers knew.

[concerned about politics]

We seem to forget or ignore what our forefathers knew.

Very true. I bought a book called the Gardeners Weather Bible. It teaches the tricks the old timers used to use to predict the weather. It's still on my "to learn" list, though. I really should get back to that book. I keep getting side tracked by other stuff.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Farmers Almanac uses sunspot activity to provide long range forecast weather for farmers and have done so for over 100 years.

Long before anyone could suggest a reason why, and it would have be scoffed at as pseudoscience on the level of claims of showbiz practitioners of the paranormal. Now we suspect that high spot activity results in deflection of cosmic rays away from the earth, and low spot activity allows the cosmic rays in, either way influencing cloud cover.