As a Radio Amateur and long-time short-wave listener, I am well aware of solar cycles that affect radio communication, weather, and unpredictable solar flares.
There is no consensus on solar cycle 25. There is a wide variation on what is predicted. Let’s start with this story from the Washington Post:
‘Scott McIntosh, a physicist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, says the latest information would suggest solar cycle 25 may actually be stronger than 24. “The present Geomagnetic data indicate a higher SC25 [solar cycle 25],” he tweeted. The decline in sunspot activity through cycle 24 was worrisome to some space weather scientists in that it suggested a return to a lengthy “solar drought,” reminiscent of the Maunder Minimum period of 1645-1715. Records show the sun was essentially spotless for this lengthy period, coinciding with the “Little Ice Age” in Europe and tickling the interest of scientists to wonder whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship between solar behavior and Earth’s climate.’
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Now another with a different “spin” is Space Weather Archive:
“We expect Solar Cycle 25 will be very similar to Cycle 24: another fairly weak maximum, preceded by a long, deep minimum,” says panel co-chair Lisa Upton, a solar physicist with Space Systems Research Corp… “Weak” Solar Cycle 24 produced a number of intense X-class solar flares, strong geomagnetic storms, and even a Ground Level Event (GLE) when solar energetic particles reached Earth’s surface.
spaceweatherarchive.com/2019/04/10/experts-predict-the-solar-cycle/
This link from Sky and Telescope has more solar information, but is quite dated:
“The Sun is acting weird. It typically puts on a pageant of magnetic activity every 11 years for aurora watchers and sungazers alike, but this time it overslept. When it finally woke up (a year late), it gave the weakest performance in 100 years.”
astronomy-news/the-weakest-solar-cycle-in-100-years/
This recent Electroverse link has some dire predictions:
“NASA is effectively forecasting a return to the Dalton Minimum (1790-1830) but gives no mention of the brutal cold, crop loss, famine, war and powerful Volcanic eruptions associated with it…”
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Here is a recent report that makes no predictions, but has an interesting chart:
universetoday.com/139833/are-we-witnessing-the-start-of-solar-cycle-25/
Finally, the following site has much information, but can be quite hard to read:
http://www.solarham.net/
What are your predictions of the next solar cycle and what do you base them on?
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