Solarcycle no 24 has been a slow starter so far but this set of spots are good looking. But I'm still predicting a cold winter here on the northern hemisphere.
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9 comments:
forgive me, I am not sure of what this photo is?
A cold winter. There should be some amazing photos from that!
Hi Grace,
The photo is the sun and shows a group of sunspots on the disc.
The photo is nicked from http://www.solarcycle24.com who nicked it from the Space Weather Prediction Center at http://www.swpc.noaa.com
a-ha. Now I see. That is incredible.
Yikes!
I just watched the movie "Knowing" starring Nicolas Cage last night.
Rather unsettling.
Another cold winter? Noooooo!
xx
thanks for the song (above), love.
Ingela, you are so welcome! Pete is so good at his own as well, isn't he?
Dale, the odds for a solar flare growing as big as reaching the earth, is even higher than for all the air molecules in the room you are sitting in, to move simultaneously in the same direction into one corner of the room and thus causing you to suffocate... :)
Yes, scary as it seems, it is mathematically possible.
But, the truth is that also other phenomenons on the suns surface, other than the heat and light, are also interacting with the climate on the earth. It is a known fact that low solar activity, i.e. few or no sunspots (and flares) for a prolonged period of time causes colder weather in the arctic regions. And the solar activity has been unusually low since the beginning of 2008
Very kind of the sun not to forget your birthday. :)
I shall keep your prediction about the winter in mind and see if it comes true.
I don't know about the arctic regions, Hans, but you were right about last winter. It was the coldest here since I moved north!I find cold winters are not what I really mind. It's wet, miserable ones that 'do me in'.
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