[ADXA] SOLAR CYCLE UPDATE

[Bill Priakos]

THIS is exciting!  See below! 😊

73, Bill


Bill Priakos – W5SJ
10 Free Ferry Heights
Fort Smith, AR 72903
479.461.8368

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SOLAR CYCLE UPDATE: This website, Spaceweather.com, began in 1997 with the first stirrings of Solar Cycle 23 (SC23). The timing was right. In the years that followed, SC23 produced the strongest solar flare<https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2003GL019345> of the Space Age (X45), the infamous Halloween Storms<https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2021/10/28/the-day-earth-lost-half-its-satellites-halloween-storms-2003/> of 2003, and multiple episodes of Northern Lights as far south as Texas<https://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01oct03_page8.html> and California<https://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01oct03_page3.html>. Could it happen again? New Solar Cycle 25 is heading in the same direction:

[https://spaceweather.com/images2023/11aug23/sc_update_strip2.jpg]<https://spaceweather.com/images2023/11aug23/sc_update.jpg>

This summer, sunspot counts have hit their highest values in more than 20 years, sharply exceeding official forecasts and putting them squarely in the ballpark of Solar Cycle 23. It's just like old times.
With Solar Max not expected for another year (or more), sunspot counts should continue to increase, further widening the gap between Solar Cycle 25 and its historically weak<https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004GL021664> predecessor Solar Cycle 24. If, indeed, Solar Cycle 25 does leapfrog Solar Cycle 24 and land in the vicinity of Solar Cycle 23, we can expect at least 3 to 5 years of high solar activity in the years ahead. Stay tuned. Solar flare alerts:

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https://spaceweather.com
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