Solar and Aurora Activity Chat

[Bullseye]

Hi all, just looking for a little bit of clarity. Daily I check the sunspot activity on www.spaceweather.com but have recently come across www.landscheidt.info and found the on both websites (regard to daily sunspot count) differs. Is there a reason for this and which website should I side with in the future?

Cheers.

[Polar Maritime]

Kpm 6 Storm expected tonight.

[drgl]

On ‎20‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 15:46, Bullseye said:

Hi all, just looking for a little bit of clarity. Daily I check the sunspot activity on www.spaceweather.com but have recently come across www.landscheidt.info and found the on both websites (regard to daily sunspot count) differs. Is there a reason for this and which website should I side with in the future?

Cheers.

http://www.landscheidt.info/?q=node/50 It tells you on that page. One method is the Layman's count. Space weather counts every singe spec (silly IMO but there you go)

[Tonyinhampshire]

6 hours ago, drgl said:

http://www.landscheidt.info/?q=node/50 It tells you on that page. One method is the Layman's count. Space weather counts every singe spec (silly IMO but there you go)

Could this change the weather patterns in the short term.

[Polar Maritime]

 

[Polar Maritime]

And from last night under Kp4 also expected tonight.

 

Edited December 24, 2016 by Polar Maritime

[karyo]

The sun is currently spotless!

www.spaceweather.com

[karyo]

On ‎24‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 13:57, karyo said:

The sun is currently spotless!

www.spaceweather.com

3rd consecutive spotless day!

[SteveB]

Impressive, and 31 day's for the year.

[karyo]

On 12/26/2016 at 16:53, SteveB said:

Impressive, and 31 day's for the year.

Indeed! There is a tiny sunspot today so hopefully we may squeeze another spotless day before the year is over.

The solar flux remain very low as per previous days: 74

[karyo]

On ‎24‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 13:57, karyo said:

We have managed to squeeze in an extra spotless day before the year is out.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[jonboy]

yes even spaceweather.com has called today spotless whereas over on the sunspot count we are on day 21 of the present spotless run. However you look at it the sun is going to sleep

[SteveB]

4 hours ago, jonboy said:

yes even spaceweather.com has called today spotless whereas over on the sunspot count we are on day 21 of the present spotless run. However you look at it the sun is going to sleep

Indeed it's gone blank again, 32 day's spotless 8% spotless for the year.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Love http://landscheidt.info/?q=node/50  Website, great that he is counting sun spots like they used to do. 22 continuous spotless day's going by the old method & cycle24 very much mirroring cycle5 the Dalton minima. Lets hope Jan 2017 can be one to remember.

Edited December 30, 2016 by SteveB

[Polar Maritime]

Cliff cam 3 Shetland has been showing some nice Aurora.

http://www.shetland.org/60n/webcams/cliff-cam-3

Edited December 31, 2016 by Polar Maritime

[SteveB]

First spotless day of 2017, long may it continue.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[drgl]

Indeed. Interesting few years ahead I hope

[SteveB]

Second spotless day, 2-3 day for 2017, interesting times!

http://www.spaceweather.com/

[karyo]

5 hours ago, SteveB said:

Second spotless day, 2-3 day for 2017, interesting times!

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Yes, we are doing very well in terms of the quiet sun.

I think other factors are overiding the quiet sun this year sadly (maybe the westerly QBO the most important) but it is only a matter of time now till we get a cold winter.

[Yarmy]

There's a new Spotless Days section on the SIDC website:

http://sidc.be/silso/spotless

The charts look a lot like those on the Solaemon website, which is not surprising as the guy who runs it now works for SIDC.

http://users.telenet.be/j.janssens/Spotless/Spotless.html

Re: the low solar activity mentioned above. As has been stated by others above, geomagnetic activity remains (relatively) high as it lags the cycle.

 

So if there's anything to these solar-climate links, some patience might be required yet.

[drgl]

Can't even see it!!

[jonboy]

5 minutes ago, drgl said:

Can't even see it!!

the interesting fact is that after each off the last spotless days on spaceweather it is ended by a spot of 11 on the very edge of the solar disc. Its almost as if they don't want spotless days!!! Upto 26 consecutive days on the laymans count

[drgl]

Yeah I noticed that. I've also noticed over the past few weeks some day's have not updated....

[jonboy]

1 minute ago, drgl said:

Yeah I noticed that. I've also noticed over the past few weeks some day's have not updated....

What I also find interesting is how quickly the F10.7 flux levels have dropped compared to other cycles. I believe it is this rapid fall in activity that is a major contributor to the disconnect between strat and trop. Its as if our atmosphere is playing catch up with a new regime. We have seen exceptionally cold upper stratosphere and a shrinking one to which is all linked to the fall off in both sunspot and flux levels.

Disregard the sun at your peril because once these forcing's kick in who knows what will happen!! 

[Weather-history]

 

[jonboy]

We see another spotless day on spaceweather makes yesterdays count of 11 even more dubious!!