‘The sun goes blank again during the weakest solar cycle in more than a century’ – IOTW Report

‘The sun goes blank again during the weakest solar cycle in more than a century’

Saturday, 25 June 2016, 21:00 MJA Uncategorized 14

ClimateDepot: For the second time this month, the sun has gone completely blank.  On June 4th, the sun went completely spotless for the first time since 2011 and that quiet spell lasted for about 4 days.  Sunspot regions then reappeared for the next few weeks on a sporadic basis, but are once again completely missing from the surface of the sun.  The blank sun is a sign that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days over the next few years.  At first, the blankness will stretch for just a few days at a time, then it’ll continue for weeks at a time, and finally it should last for months at a time when the sunspot cycle reaches its nadir.  The next solar minimum phase is expected to take place around 2019 or 2020. The current solar cycle is the 24th since 1755 when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began and is the weakest in more than a century with the fewest sunspots since cycle 14 peaked in February 1906.  more here

14 Comments on ‘The sun goes blank again during the weakest solar cycle in more than a century’

  3. The sun used to be inhabited by fossil fuel burners that didn’t pay carbon taxes. And we’re paying for it today, otherwise we could orbit any star we wanted to.

  7. She packed up her bags and she took off down the road
    Left me here stranded with the bills she owed
    She gave me a false address
    Took off with my American Express
    Sunspot Baby
    She sure had me way outguessed

    She left me here stranded like a dog out in the yard
    Charged up a fortune on my credit card
    She used my address and my name
    Man that was sure unkind
    Sunspot Baby
    She sure has a real good time

    I looked in Miami
    I looked in Negril
    The closest I came was a month old bill
    I checked the Bahamas and they said she was gone
    I can’t understand why she did me so wrong

    But she packed up her bags
    And she took off down the road
    Said she was going to visit sister Flo
    She used my address and my name
    And man that was sure unkind
    Sunspot Baby
    I’m gonna catch up sometime
    Sure had a real good time

  8. And what does this mean to me? As a ham radio operator, I rely on a really high sunspot cycle to enable worldwide communications. (the simple answer is sunspots energize the ionosphere and radio signals can take long “bounces”). When sunspots were high it was easy to contact places like Mongolia and Antarctica. Today you can barely communicate several states away. Sunspots are on an 11 year cycle and we haven’t had a good cycle for a good long time.

  13. It’ll wake up someday, like never before.

    “The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun and it was given to it to scorch men with fire. Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and did not repent so as to give Him glory.”

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