Maybe its the calm before the storm, just storing up energy for bigger and more frequent releases.

I heard the current solar maximum is the weakes one. The Sun goes through periods of bigger solar maximums and smaller ones.

Careful what you ask for .

Originally posted by Thebel
It seems that Sun is not reaching as high activity than predicted.

And this would be a good thing, right? Not frying satellites, not causing blackouts, etc.

I've learned that predicting the solar cycle is not yet an exact science. It's educated guesswork as far as I can tell. So when the prediction is not exactly met, I wouldn't get too concerned about that.

Originally posted by OLD HIPPY DUDE
Careful what you ask for .

Exactly, life brings enough problems without the sun frying stuff.

I can remember reading about it more than 4 years ago, that this Solar maximum cycle will be of a very low intensity. I guess it was in some astronomical journal, but can't remember now which one it was.

I read a story a while ago in relation to less sunspots popping up on the Sun lately and there was a prediction that soon there may be none. Of course another article released around the same time said the opposite.