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Sun spots and weather

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  • 27-09-2008 6:22pm
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    silverharp
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    Not talking about climate change here but I've come across some comments that we (not Ireland specifically) should expect a cold winter this year due to the fact there has been almost no sunspots this year, it will be interesting to see if there will be any noticable difference here.

    Has anyone read up on this?

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    Danno
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    Yup, a very informative website - http://www.iceagenow.com follows these features closely and reports on just about everything that is NOT Global Warming. Some very interesting articles and links on there.

    I think this winter will be cooler than recent winters due to this. Any cold incursions will be extra cold, but we'll have our usual 60 or 70% of the time of mild too. Snowfalls should be interestingly heavy this year IMO.


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    baldieman
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    Hi,
    It looks like the sunspot activity dropped off dramatically in 2005, months in 2007 with none at all. according to the predicted cycle they should have returned at latest early this year and be climbing to a peek now, but they have just disappeared. Looks like this may not have happened in well over 100 years. If there is a connection, as may be the case, between cloud cover and sunspots it could have something to do with the poor summers this year and last? or more important, could we be in for a return for some rough winters?

    http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/02/13/where-have-all-the-sunspots-gone/


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    silverharp
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    Danno wrote: »
    Yup, a very informative website - http://www.iceagenow.com follows these features closely and reports on just about everything that is NOT Global Warming. Some very interesting articles and links on there.

    I think this winter will be cooler than recent winters due to this. Any cold incursions will be extra cold, but we'll have our usual 60 or 70% of the time of mild too. Snowfalls should be interestingly heavy this year IMO.

    Thanks, The source that had mentioned the low sunspot count made refernece to South Africa

    "South Africa faces 'winter wonderland' after snow and
    coldest September in recorded history - 21 Sep 08"


    to keep up with the count
    http://www.spaceweather.com/

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    Mullaghteelin
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    It used be said on various online weather forums that high sunspot activity helped fuel an active jet and lots of stormy unsettled weather, while very low sunspot activity helped give us lots of blocked settled weather. The last solar min conincided with the fairly settled and cold winter of 1995-1996 which seemed to back up this theory. However, we have had little or no sunspots for the best part of a year now and where is all the settled weather we were supposed to have? :confused: Unsettled weather has mostly dominated, and remember the unseasonable storms in March? Personally I dont expect anything other than more of the same this winter!:(


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