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Solar cycle 24 (2008–2019) Solar cycle 25 is the current solar cycle, the 25th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in December 2019 with a minimum smoothed sunspot number of 1.8. [ 2 ] It is expected to continue until about 2030. [ 3 ][ 4 ]
Comparison of cycles 24 and 25 by daily spots. [edit] The following table gives the number of days so far in cycle 25 against the number up to the same point in cycle 24, which have passed various thresholds for the numbers of sunspots. Counts. SC 24 to end of 2013. SC 24 to Oct 14, 2013. SC 25 to Oct 14, 2024. ≥100.
The March 1989 geomagnetic storm occurred as part of severe to extreme solar storms during early to mid March 1989, the most notable being a geomagnetic storm that struck Earth on March 13. This geomagnetic storm caused a nine-hour outage of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system. The onset time was exceptionally rapid. [1]
A previous panel convened by NOAA, Nasa and the International Space Environment Services (ISES) in 2019 predicted Solar Cycle 25 would be weak and peak in July 2025 at a maximum sunspot number of 115.
A preliminary consensus by a solar cycle 25 Prediction Panel was made in early 2019. [24] The Panel, which was organized by NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) and NASA, based on the published solar cycle 25 predictions, concluded that solar cycle 25 will be very similar to solar cycle 24. They anticipate that the solar cycle minimum ...
Emilee Speck. October 15, 2024 at 6:09 PM. The Sun has reached a period of peak activity in an 11-year cycle known as the Solar Maximum, marked by recent geomagnetic storms and near-global aurora ...
The updated figure (right) shows the variations and contrasts solar cycles 14 and 24, a century apart, that are quite similar in all solar activity measures (in fact cycle 24 is slightly less active than cycle 14 on average), yet the global mean air surface temperature is more than 1 degree Celsius higher for cycle 24 than cycle 14, showing the ...
[96] [97] The final storms reaching the highest level of NOAA's G-scale before Solar Cycle 25 occurred in 2005 in May, [98] [99] [100] August, [101] and September, respectively. With a NOAA rating of G5, a peak Dst of −412 nT, and aurorae seen at far lower latitudes than usual in both hemispheres , this geomagnetic storm was the most powerful ...