Field Guides at the Leigh Creek Library
Leigh Creek Library has an excellent range of field guides including the following titles.
Stratocumulus clouds at sunset
Cirrostratus clouds at sunset
Entering Solar Minimum
From space weather.com
Sunspots are becoming scarce. Very scarce. So far in 2018 the sun has been blank almost 60% of the time, with whole weeks going by without sunspots.
The fact that sunspots are vanishing comes as no surprise. Forecasters have been saying for years that this would happen as the current solar cycle (“solar cycle 24”) comes to an end. The surprise is how fast.
“Solar cycle 24 is declining more quickly than forecast,” stated NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center on April 26th. This plot shows observed sunspot numbers in blue vs. the official forecast in red:
