Active SunActive Sun

Looks like the sun had an active weekend. There was a C3 flare plus other eruptions yesterday,1 Aug 2010. The spacewether.com site said “In short,we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun.”

With a CME is heading our way there might be a chance [...]

Sun spots and cold wintersSun spots and cold winters

According to BBC news low solar activity has been found to produce colder European winters. Research published in the journal ‘Environmental Research Letters’  “…identified a link between fewer sunspots and atmospheric conditions that “block”warm,westerly winds reaching Europe during winter months.”

Evidently there is a correlation between low sun spot activity and cold winters [...]

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