Climateer Investing: NASA's Solar Cycle Prediction (Oct. 2, 2012)

Monday, October 8, 2012

NASA's Solar Cycle Prediction (Oct. 2, 2012)

From NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center:

The current prediction for Sunspot Cycle 24 gives a smoothed sunspot number maximum of about 75 in the Fall of 2013. The smoothed sunspot number (for 2012/02) is already nearly 67 due to the strong peak in late 2011 so the official maximum will be at least this high. We are currently well over three years into Cycle 24. The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906....MUCH MORE

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