Quote:Keith Strong
@drkstrong
THE SUN TODAY:
1) SSN down again to 150.
2) Just had an M1 flare from sunspot group AR3242, otherwise all's quiet.
3) New region behind NE limb.
4) New sunspot group coming over NE limb does not look strong. Lots of small regions popping up briefly.
5) Only six CMEs yesterday.
Seems like lots of fluctuations, burst of energy (sunspots, flares, CMEs) then sunspot number etc reduce for a while.
Some fools still wedded to the idea of a GSM now marked the first retreat from 200+ spots as the peak. Nope, peak is in later half of 2025, still 2 years to go to the peak of SC25! This is ideology trying to trump observation, willing the sun to reduce the number of spots. Fluctuations don’t matter.
Not that SC25, the current Solar Cycle, is going to have 1000 sunspots at peak or anything like that. The number of spots, flares & CMEs will be higher than at the peak of SC24 is all. Maybe 300 sunspots at peak? (SA24 had 220 spots at peak.)