Sun poised to make history with first spotless month since 1913

To me, this is the most fascinating time. When the Sun is blank, it whispers its secrets to those curious enough to wait, watch, and listen. When its noisy you can’t hear anything over the din and reminds me of when my kids were little when my only sanctuary was the locked bathroom and a tub filled with warm bubblies.

There was a stretch of 42 spotless days from 9/13/1996 to 10/24/1996. Today we have equaled this period. Check out Jan Janssens spotless days page http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Spotless/Spotless.html.

Here is some info from Wikipedia on 1913 weather:
The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, historically referred to as the “Big Blow”, the “Freshwater Fury” or the “White Hurricane”, was a blizzard with hurricane-force winds that devastated the Great Lakes Basin in the Midwestern United States and the Canadian province of Ontario from November 7 through November 10, 1913. The storm was most powerful on November 9, battering and overturning ships on four of the five Great Lakes, particularly Lake Huron. Deceptive lulls in the storm and the slow pace of weather reports contributed to the storm’s destructiveness.
The deadliest and most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes,[1] the Great Lakes Storm killed more than 250 people, destroyed 19 ships and stranded 19 other ships.

“So-post May/ June 1913 what did earthy temps do?”
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/dtx/stm_1913.php
“..one could hardly deny that the fall storm of November 7-12th, 1913
ranks near or at the top! In fact, it is generally agreed that
the November 1913 storm (which concentrated more on Lake Huron
for its death and destruction) was the greatest ever to strike
the Great Lakes…
…The air behind this front was very cold for
early November with temperatures plunging into the single figures
across the Northern Plains….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton
Endurance left Plymouth for the Antarctic on 8 August 1914.[36] After stops at Buenos Aires and South Georgia she departed for the Weddell Sea on 5 December. As the ship moved southward early ice was encountered, which slowed progress. Deep in the Weddell Sea conditions gradually grew worse until, on 17 January 1915, Endurance became frozen fast in an ice floe, and on 24 February, realising that she would not now break free until the following spring, Shackleton ordered the ship wintered.

So with 43 days we will almost certainly have the longest period of spotless days since 1913 tomorrow, almost 100 years.
Do you think this will make the New Scientist? or will it be knocked out of the news by a penguin with heat stroke?
Seven more days without spots, and it moves from the 10th longest period without spots since 1849 to the 4th longest period. Another five days would make it the 3rd longest period.
Its going to be an interesting few day for sun watchers.

We lived in Omaha NE for about five years and we always had a tornado or two, but the old times were always talking about the seven in 1913 that wiped out the City. It was over Easter week in March of 1913
1. The Omaha Tornado March 23, 1913 101 Dead
This was the darkest day in Nebraska severe weather history. A family of at least seven tornadoes moved across Nebraska and Iowa. The Omaha tornado was the deadliest. It started in Sarpy County, ripping its way northeast through Ralston, where seven people died. The twister then cut a quarter-mile wide path across Omaha and killed 94 people with 600 homes destroyed and over 1,100 others damaged in this tornado. Two children were killed Southeast of Beebeetown in Harrison County, Iowa.
Click here to see Photo Gallery
2. The Yutan Tornado March 23, 1913 20 Dead
The tornado crossed the Platte River 3 miles SW of Valley. 2 people died west of Logan, IA. This tornado, also on the outbreak of March 23rd, started 1 mile southeast of Mead. The tornado moved northeast and destroyed the northern half of Yutan, killing 17 people. The tornado continued moving northeast and killed another person just outside of town. The tornado killed two other people on farms northeast of Yutan. 40 homes and 4 churches were destroyed or damaged with losses at about $100,000. The twister crossed the Platte river southwest of Valley and continued to move northeast across Washington County. The tornado ended in Harrison County, Iowa where two people were killed in Logan.
3. The Berlin Tornado March 23, 1913 13 Dead
The “Berlin” tornado began 4 miles south of Douglas in southwest Otoe County. The tornado traveled northeast and leveled many farms as it passed 2 miles NW of Syracuse. The tornado hit the town of Berlin, now called Otoe, and killed 12 people and produced $250,000 worth of damage. The tornado continued into Cass County where it killed one person near Rock Cliffs, by the Missouri River. The tornado continued on into Iowa where 3 people were killed north of Bartlett and 2 people were killed SE of Glenwood in Mills County.

We need to refer back to 1912, when a massive chunk of ice broke away from a Greenland glacier, due to AGW, and the resulting iceberg ultimately sank the Titanic. We were unfortunate in not having the scientific acumen of an Al Gore who could have warned us in advance of the potential of such a disaster.
We should rejoice in the Sun’s reduced energy output and its masking of AGW.

Total Solar Irradiance continues to decline as well.
The PMOD composite has been averaging 1,365.0 W/m2 for the past three months, the lowest recorded since records began in 1978.
ftp://ftp.pmodwrc.ch/pub/data/irradiance/composite/DataPlots/composite_d41_61_0808.plt
The SORCE TSI plot continues declining as well – down to about 1,360.8 W/m2 – its lowest as well.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/ion-p?ION__E1=PLOT%3Aplot_tsi_data.ion&ION__E2=PRINT%3Aprint_tsi_data.ion&ION__E3=BOTH%3Aplot_and_print_tsi_data.ion&START_DATE=1640&STOP_DATE=2050&TIME_SPAN=24&PLOT=Plot+Data