Well it may be a sunny day tomorrow, and it may not, but it seems that the level of Solar Activity is decreasing, whatever the weather here on earth.
The Great Solar Conveyor Belt is a belt of hot plasma that controls sunspot activity on the sun. Normally it travels at 1m/s, however it has slowed down to 0.75 m/s in the Northern hemisphere and 0.35m/s in the Southern hemisphere. This change in speed has led scientist David Hathaway to forecast a lowest level of activity seen in years, when solar maximum is reached in 2020.
More details: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/10may_longrange.htm?list855910
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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