I certainly appreciate freepers such as yourself and strategerist, always helping us keep things in their proper perspective and, for instance, tonight I am no longer sitting here worrying about when the ligh
Lots of hype out there on both sides of the aisle. It looks like there is currently more activity on the back side of the sun and that will come over to our side in a few days. So perhaps sun spots will go up shortly. Still below moderate though. The range is roughly like this - (0-25 sunspots very weak)(25-50 sunspots weak)(50-75 sunspots moderate)(75-100 sunspots strong)(100-125 sunspots very strong)(> 125 sunspots peaking strongly). The highest so far for Solar Cycle 24 has been about 43 and it was on December 19th.