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Originally Posted by Boozlefoot
.... you're just getting into Solar Cycle 25, and these cycle usually go for 11 years or so.
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True, we're about 30% in to Solar Cycle 25, maybe 2 years away from the Solar Maximum with well over (~> +50%) of what was predicted for the "strength" (number of sunspots) for the cycle by the combined NOAA / NASA / ISES prediction panel in 2019.
As an aside, The solar maximum accords with warmer weather, so it's coming. The local effects of what happens around the globe vary considerably depending on locality, proximity to water, vegetation, time of year/season (i.e: position relative to sun), latitude, which in their own way are related to the strength of solar radiation received in that location and how that energy is absorbed or reradiated: into the atmosphere, into the land mass, into the oceans or into the wonderfully and increasingly absorbent urban jungle.
The Sun is King and is the shorter term driver of our climate both in its radiative output and its production of the solar wind / charged particle ejections etc. and its/their interactions with cosmic rays our magnetosphere, atmosphere, land masses and oceans. In the much longer term our galactic position and orbital parameters also have an effect on ice ages and interglacial periods.
Best
JA