'Slumbering Sun Should Wake Up This Year'

[Sqyff]

Not my heading but one from an article on Space.com.

http://www.space.com...ce-weather.html

If this is true we could be in for a good period of solar activity over the next year.

[allcart]

Oh Goody, I look forward to that.

[nightfisher]

does this mean we might get a summer?

[Sqyff]

does this mean we might get a summer?

Nah, probably just mean all this will be going on above the clouds and we won't see it.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nah, probably just mean all this will be going on above the clouds and we won't see it.

Guess why I am going to Italy for a month this summer

[sologuitarist61]

We can but hope!!

[JB80]

Just in time for a summer move to Spain.

[Sqyff]

Guess why I am going to Italy for a month this summer

Just in time for a summer move to Spain.

You do realize that where-ever you go carrying a telescope, the clouds will find you. They are tenacious little blighters well known for their bloodhound instincts.

[DrRobin]

The sun is currently sleeping under a duvet, you can make out its basic shape and there are times when you think it is going to wake up and show itself, but like Rip Van Winkle there isn't too much chance.

I am planning to take my scope on hols this year. I am not telling you where or when I am going and the scope will be kept well under wraps to stop the clouds from sussing me out.

Robin

[Sqyff]

The sun is currently sleeping under a duvet, you can make out its basic shape and there are times when you think it is going to wake up and show itself, but like Rip Van Winkle there isn't too much chance.

I am planning to take my scope on hols this year. I am not telling you where or when I am going and the scope will be kept well under wraps to stop the clouds from sussing me out.

Robin

You can run but you can't hide. The clouds'll get ya!

[JamesF]

Unfortunately the space.com title only has the first part of the story. "Slumbering Sun Should Wake Up This Year" should be followed by "if it behaves as we believe it will". It feels to me as if some scientists are perhaps jumping the gun a little bit and indulging in wishful thinking.

James