May 21, 2013
2008 will be coming to a close with yet another spotless days according to the latest solar image.
This will bring the total number of sunspotless days this month to 28 and for the year to 266, clearly enough to make 2008, the second least active solar year since 1900.
The total number of spotless days this spolar minimum is now at around 510 days since the last maximum. The earliest the minimum of the sunspot cycles can be is July 2008, which would make the cycle length 12 years 3 months, longest since cycle 9 in 1848. If the sun stays quiet for a few more months we will rival the early 1800s, the Dalton Minimum which fits with the 213 year cycle which begin with the solar minimum in the late 1790s.
Long cycles are cold and short ones like the ones in the 1980s and 1990s are warm.
Put that together with the flip of the PDO in the Pacific to cold and you have powerful evidence this cooling of the last 7 years years will continue and accelerate.
See images, graphs and learn more about solar cycles at icecap.us
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