Solar Activity Drought: Now Only 28% Of What Is Normal…Arctic Sea Ice Volume Greater Than 2014!
By P Gosselin on 25. May 2018
By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt
(Translated, edited and summarized by P Gosselin)
The sun was inactive in April, as we currently find ourselves in the minimum between solar cycle (SC) 24 and the coming solar cycle 25.
The recorded mean sunspot number (SSN) for April was 8.9, which is only 28% of what is usual 113 months into a solar cycle. In April, 16 days were spotless. The following chart shows sunspot activity:
Figure 1: Plot of the monthly sunspot activity for the current cycle (red) compared to SC 5 (black) and the mean of the previous 23 recorded cycles (blue).
Next what follows is a chart of the sunspot activity, as measured by satellite. As spot activity rises, so does total solar irradiance (TSI):
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