Showing posts with label solar cycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solar cycle. Show all posts
1 Aug 2024

Solar cycle progression

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In July, we have had some very high numbers. I suspect the smoothed solar peak of cycle 25 will now be far later in this year than once thou...
2 Feb 2022

Slightly better solar cycle?

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According to the updated solar data, it looks like this solar cycle is very slightly better than the last cycle. What does this mean? Expect...
22 Dec 2021

How big will the next sunspot peak be?

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One thing is certain, experts do not agree!  In the last few days we have seen quite high solar flux and sunspot numbers for this part of th...
23 Jun 2021

The next solar peak

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Jay, W5OLF has sent me an article on the next solar peak suggesting it could be good. The last forecast I saw suggested it could be similar...
17 Jan 2020

Have we past the solar minimum?

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Although the recent days have been spotless yet again, the solar flux seems to be above 70 pretty consistently. Are we now on the start of t...
31 Dec 2019

Solar forecasts

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As you know, I keep an eye on the solar data. According to a piece in Southgate News , the next solar peak is expected around July 2025 and ...
24 Oct 2018

Solar cycle 25 start

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"While smaller spots with the correct polarity alignment of cycle 25 regions have been observed at high latitude locations as ear...
2 Oct 2017

Slowly declining solar conditions

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September was a bit of a surprise, with quite respectable solar flux and sunspots. Nonetheless, on average we are still very much on the dow...
13 Oct 2016

Autumn HF conditions?

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Although we are now well in to autumn, apart from South Americans by what I assume is TEP, I have not (yet) seen a great improvement in HF c...
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18 Jan 2016

QRP and low sunspot activity

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There is some debate over QRP and declining solar activity. Certainly more power helps when conditions are marginal although often if a path...
28 Jun 2014

Solar decline

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There is little doubt now that we have passed the solar peak and we are now on the way to the minimum. This is still years away mind you. Th...
1 Jun 2013

No new solar maximum?

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The latest summary for May 2013 on the Solar Terrestrial Activity Report at http://www.solen.info/solar/ shows that the (smoothed) internat...
14 May 2013

Solar flare and cycle 24

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The BBC website has news of the solar flare on Monday. See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22525233 .  As we are around the...
7 May 2013

Solar activity - a second peak?

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Looking at the sunspot and solar flux levels in the last month, it looks like we are seeing evidence of a second peak to cycle 24.  Whether ...
3 Dec 2012

Long-term Solar Outlook - downwards!

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Chris N7ZWY has put an interesting graph on his website showing his predictions for the future solar cycle progression. His graph shows the ...