“WE ARE NOW EXPERIENCING A CENTURY-CLASS SOLAR MINIMUM” — DR TONY PHILLIPS
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020 CAP ALLON
The sun has been blank for 32 consecutive days, a stretch that enters the SIDC record books as one of the longest ‘periods with spotless days’ since 1849, and it ain’t over yet. In addition, the highly active region turning around the limb –expected to spoil the party this week– has turned out to be “all sizzle”.
All sizzle, and no sunspot, writes Dr Tony Phillips of spaceweather.com. We expected a sunspot. Instead, we have plage. French for “beach,” a plage is the bright magnetic froth that surrounds many big sunspots. In this case, however, there are no sunspot:
IN ADDITION....the magnetic pole has shifted approx. 2 degrees......MANY factors are inter related.
The shift CAN be relatively quick, or gradual,which is what we are witnessing presently. Various weather factors can be attributed to this shift....it occurs consistently throughout the eons.....NOT a new thing.
