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21 Dec 08 – “Last week's sunspot group was only visible for three
days, December 10-12. The average daily sunspot number for all of 2007
was 12.8; if we see no sunspots for the rest of 2008, the average for
this year will be 4.7.
“By comparison, the yearly averages of daily sunspot numbers during the
last solar minimum (1995-1997) were 28.7, 13.2 and 30.7. This solar
minimum is much lower than the one about 12 years ago.”
Is it just a coincidence that we’ve broken so many
cold temperature
records and so many snowfall records? I think not.
How can anyone look at these low
sunspot numbers and still pretend
that activities on the sun don’t control our weather?
Especially when we know that the
last Little Ice Age occurred during
the Maunder Minimum, a period of 80 years when there were
no
sunspots.
The correlation between sunspot minimums and ice ages is
undeniable.
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/12/19/10515/?nc=1
This sunspot update comes from
the AARL website (The National Assn
for Amateur Radio). “These guys are good on the
day-to-day, stuff,”
says my friend Mike McEvoy.
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