Each sunspot cycle has been getting less intense. This means temperature drops… And right now, the weather is following this trend.
(Article republished from StrangeSounds.org)
Comparison between solar maximum and solar minimum. Picture: NASAJust a few days ago, I discussed the space weather forecast of several scientists for solar cycle 25. While some very big solar storms have already taken place, the new cycle is week in overall.
Meanwhile, dozens of cold records were broken or shattered on Saturday across Northeast US.
New freezing temperature records in northeastern US in May 2021. More data here
As shown in previous articles, freezing cold temperatures in April and May 2021 were responsible for damage or total destruction of crops, fruits and vegetables as well as harvest delays in Europe.
A sunspot unleashed a chain of solar flares last Saturday, May 22, jamming radio signals over North America and Southeast Asia and potentially causing a disturbance to Earth's magnetic [.]
17 May 2021, 11:57 BST
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft took these images on 30 May 2020. They show the Sun’s appearance at a wavelength of 17 nanometers, which is in the extreme ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Images at this wavelength reveal the upper atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, with a temperature of around 1 million degrees.
Photograph by Image by Solar Orbiter/EUI Team/ ESA & NASA; CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL
For all we’ve learned about the sun, our home star remains shrouded in mystery. Now, after seven years of relative calm, the sun is set to become more temperamental and a fleet of sun-gazing spacecraft are ready to watch as it awakens. Those spacecraft are offering scientists an unprecedented chance to study our stormy star and the ways it can affect our cosmic neighbourhood.