The UAH Satellite Temperature Record With Volcanic Noise Outliers Filtered Out A guest post by Steven Goddard I’ve often wondered what the UAH global temperature record would look like if the…
Category: Solar
The new NASA solar goalpost: Cycle 24, maybe not so big
A few days ago I wrote in State of the Sun for year end 2008: all’s quiet on the solar front – too quiet that “No new cycle 24 predictions have…
Solar Geomagnetic Ap Index now at lowest point in its record
As many regular readers know, I’ve pointed out several times the incident of the abrupt and sustained lowering of the Ap Index which occurred in October 2005. The abrupt step…
State of the Sun for year end 2008: all's quiet on the solar front – too quiet
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction center updated their plots of solar indices earlier today, on January 3rd. With the exception of a slight increase in the 107 centimeter radio flux,…
2008 Ends Spotless and with 266 Spotless Days, the #2 Least Active Year Since 1900, Portends Cooling
From ICECAP By Joseph D’Aleo CCM, AMS Fellow 2008 will be coming to a close with yet another spotless days according to the latest solar image. This will bring the…
Earth's Magnetic Field Has Massive Breach – scientists baffled
I know. This sounds like a plot of a 1950’s scifi movie. But it is real. From my view, our localized corner of the solar system is now different than…
Earth's Ionosphere drops to a new low
The height of the ionosphere/space transition is controlled in part by the amount of extreme ultraviolet energy emitted by the Sun and a somewhat contracted ionosphere could have been expected…
Even quieter on the solar front – another "all quiet alert" issued
The Sun today Solar cycle 24 still getting a slow and very delayed start. This is the third one of these (that I know of) this past year. From SIDC…
21 spotless days and solar magnetic field still in a funk
We are now at 21 days with no sunspots, it will be interesting to see if we reach a spotless 30 day period and then perhaps a spotless month of…
A look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Sunspots
This paper appeared in the journal Technological Forecasting & Social Change: Sunspots, GDP and the stock market (View paper PDF) by: Theodore Modis Abstract A correlation has been observed between…
New essay claims- "Not to Worry: Solar Magnetic Activity for Cycle 24 Is Increasing"
So far, SC24 solar magnetic activity has been in a relative funk. See my post on this very issue from last month. Leif Svalgaard points out this new paper in…
Hard lesson about solar realities for NOAA / NASA
Hard lesson about solar realities for NOAA / NASA Reposted here: October 30th, 2008 by Warwick Hughes The real world sunspot data remaining quiet month after month are mocking the…
Sun's protective 'bubble' is shrinking
From the UK Telegraph – source link The protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and getting weaker, NASA scientists…
Sun's magnetic field still in a funk during September
While the sun puts out a new and significant cycle 24 spot, the real news is just how quiet the suns magnetic field has been in the past couple of…
Significant Cycle 24 sunspot group emerges
Click for large image This is the biggest Cycle 24 spot since the first one was seen on January 4th, 2008. This spot looks to have some staying power other…
NASA moves the goalposts on Solar Cycle 24 again
Animation courtesy Michael Ronayne. Click for larger, slower speed animation NASA’s David Hathaway just recently updated his solar cycle prediction and has pushed cycle 24 into the future a little…
New Solar Cycle Not Packing Much Punch
I found a reference to this article while looking at Leif Svalgaard’s website, and since I missed it the first time around, and because the message is still valid, I thought…
Speckwatch
There’s been a little discussion about the plage area that came around the solar rim in the last two days, and now it appears that it has formed a spot.…
NASA: Sun is "blankety blankest" it's been in the Space Age
From NASA Science News h/t to John-X Spotless Sun: 2008 is the Blankest Year of the Space Age Sept. 30, 2008: Astronomers who count sunspots have announced that 2008 is…
Small sunspecks emerging on both solar hemispheres
In comments, Jonn-X wondered: Dead pixels or new sunspecks (pore-ettes) ? At first I was pretty sure I was looking at nothing, then I saw the official NOAA bulletin http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/forecast.html…
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