Cycle 25 has been looking good thus far, and if things keep progressing at this rate, we may see another Cycle 23 or better. I've had a good feeling about this cycle since 2020, even with this prediction...

What's that they're saying now? Exceeding expectations?
Well, exceeding expectations = OOPS, we must have gotten that one wrong.
I have respect for Dr. Hathaway, solar physicist for NASA. His knowledge of the sun has helped
solve crimes. But I just don't believe anyone on earth can predict what the sun will do years from now, like meteorologists can predict what the weather will do a week from now. (And they can be wrong about that too)
Dug into the archives and found some of my posts about Cycle 25 from 2020...
DXing / Re: Sun Spots!
« on: November 26, 2020, 02:24:57 PM »
Made a comparison between SC24 and SC25. Those of us who were active between 2007-2009 may remember wondering if SC24 would ever kick off. That finally happened around Jul 2009. I guess these cycles are considered underway when the sunspots show the correct polarity. I'm basing the progress here by kickoff, or when the SN started upward and didn't bounce back to the bottom.
Noticed today's SN is 40. If my memory is correct, we had that number 2 weeks ago. It took about 17 months for SC24 to reach 40 from kickoff. SC25 was predicted to reach SN 40 a little quicker, but this happened in a little over 10 months. We're off to a fast start, but of course that doesn't necessarily mean a good finish. Hope we see a fast upclimb like we did in 2011. Would love to see 150 again.

DXing / Re: Sun Spots!
« on: November 30, 2020, 05:55:10 AM »
It keeps getting better and better. SC 24 took about 2 years from takeoff to reach 80 SN. SC25 did it in 11 months! Of course we don't know how this will end up when SC25 peaks, but if it keeps up this pace, HOLY MOLY!

I may have exaggerated just a little bit here...
Cycle 25 to be a whopper !
« on: February 25, 2021, 09:26:13 AM »
Here's the whopper. Remember, you saw it first here...
