First solar spots of this new sun cycle.

Yup, it really is a nice day, my solar panels have kicked in for the first time since re-filling 'em a couple of weeks ago.

Interesting topic, I wonder how much the Sun spot activity affects our weather, I have heared there is a link...?
Last year April was glorious and it rained all June July... Give us your weather predictions? so I can schedule in my re-roofing..
Del

They say it dominates our weather patterns more than we even have begun to understand.

As we are on the doorstep of the new cycle, just begun a few months ago, we don't see a lot of activity yet and the effect on our weather is probably very minute. Later on in the 11 year cycle (approximately 11 years) we will see an increase building up to the peak on around 5 to 7 years. That is most definitely linked to our weather patterns as they always coincide with freak storms and very out of the ordinary weather on earth.

The other thing that solar activity does is produce flares. These eruptions can go for 10's or 100's of thousands of miles into space and cause magnetic storms. This stuff is dangerous and space flights are heavily affected by them. They prefer the space ships or stations to be in the shadow of the earth or behind the moon or something. Does funny things to humans as well.

This year they already are saying that summer is going to be dry but I don't really listen to them anymore as they just make it all up as they go along. Haven't you noticed that lately even the slightest storm gets warnings flagged up just in case the Michael Fish scenario repeats itself.

Weather is not a science in my book, they are wrong too often to be precise or exact. Science is exact and precise.

Any way we will have weather tomorrow, that is a fact.