|
|
Post by glennkoks on Jun 25, 2012 14:31:13 GMT
Just how rare is it for there to be spotless days so close to a solar maximum? The sun has been void or nearly void (depending on who's count your using) for several days now. Perhaps there may be something to the claims of a new solar minimum.
|
|
|
|
Post by trbixler on Jun 25, 2012 15:09:11 GMT
 "May Update: Sunspot activity rose slightly over May but still remains well and truly in the Grand Minimum scale. The southern hemisphere activity continued to remain stronger than previous months but still lagging behind the north. LSC was measured at 41.9, SIDC 69, NOAA unadjusted at 99.5 (prov). This month saw NOAA splitting groups like not seen before along with the SIDC going crazy with group splits. Group splitting is another method of artificially raising the sunspot number. SIDC for the 14th straight month over counting compared with NOAA. April was another month of heavy speck activity resulting in a substantial difference between the LSC and other counting methods although the gap narrowed by a small margin. The speck ratio is responsible for the large divergence which saw great variation on several days throughout May. Because the LSC does not count regions with its largest spot under the SIDC raw value of 3, it can be used as a guide to the overall speck ratio, which continues to rise over SC24. This is further evidence that L&P are just measuring more specks of lower magnetic value which incorrectly lowers the overall magnetic value using their method (a speck has the same rating as a large spot)." www.landscheidt.info/?q=node/50icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog |
|
|
|
Post by Pooh on Jun 26, 2012 5:07:19 GMT
|
|
