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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on July 29, 2013, 1352 UTC

Title: Solar Cycle 24 Update
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on July 29, 2013, 1352 UTC

Recently, a number of newspaper articles spoke of the potential of cycle 25 to be   “Weakest Solar Cycle In Almost 200 Years”. “We’re in a new age of solar physics,” said David Hathaway of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/28/article-2093264-1180A549000005DC-715_468x290.jpg)

The F10.7 flux shows that Solar Cycle 24 is quite a weak cycle relative to the ones that have preceded it in the instrumental record. In terms of F10.7 flux, Solar Cycle 24 peaked two years ago.
(http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/image_thumb29.png?w=605&h=376)

Full article: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/28/solar-cycle-24-update-2/ (http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/28/solar-cycle-24-update-2/)

Title: Re: Solar Cycle 24 Update
Post by: cmradio on July 30, 2013, 0701 UTC

LW/MW DX'ers, REJOICE! :D