Posted on 11/01/2013 9:30:13 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
The sun has erupted more than two dozen times over the last week, sending radiation and solar material hurtling through space - and scientists say more eruptions may be coming.
This shouldn't be unusual. After all, we are technically at solar maximum, the peak of the 11-year cycle of the sun's activity. But this has been a noticeably mellow solar maximum, with the sun staying fairly quiet throughout the summer. So when our life-giving star suddenly let loose with 24 medium strength M-class solar flares and four significantly stronger X-class flares between Oct. 23 and Oct. 30, it felt like a surprise.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Now, may be we will have a maximum. We are just coming out of a very long and deep sunspot minimum.
And, Yes, it affects weather. But IT is not man made.
Should make for good DXing.
The sun is apparently experiencing an ammo shortage too.
What? You are saying that nothing we do on Earth effects the cyclic pattern of the sun? hmmm who would of thunk? /sarc
We should blow the sun up before the darn thing kills us all.
(*snort*)
bring it...
We should blow the sun up before the darn thing kills us all.
STOP IT! Al Gore hates it when people release his plans before he does.
How can you say that - just observing it sends negatively charged photon receptors streaming at the Sun and their impact and mini-explosions at varying depths causes eddies which have significant impact on it. Hence the admonition against staring at it.
Either that or require that everyone owns a Chevy Volt.
Current sunspot number is 95 and on the low side for solar max. Good graphic you put up. Linky?
FYI, at least if you are in Firefox (but similar probably in other browsers), right-click on the image and "Save Image Location" gives you the link to do anything you want from the paste buffer.
There are two standards for the daily sunspot number, and 95 is the one that results in higher numbers (Boulder number). This chart is based on the International (Wolf), lower-value resulting standard. It’s about a 25% difference.
An Obot must have told you that. hee hee hee
I am convinced by long term observation that the length of the cycle itself is not predictable. You hear numbers kicked around from 11-17 years. There are just too many variables to make it predictable.
Now, it is clear it affects out weather. And it affects radio propagation too.
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