Sunspots and Sun Song: Weather Extremes to 2020 and Solar Events 2011

In the summer of 2010, scientists discovered music on the sun.

This, at first, was as unexpected a finding as Atlantic whales in the 1990s discovered to have picked up the slave medody of Amazing Grace and to have passed it on through the generations to today's Atlantic whales. Music is everywhere. Any electromagnetic frequency may be translated to sound...music.

The solar corona is still the most obscure and least understood layer of the sun's atmosphere. The NASA Space Dynamics Observatory is attempting in-depth studies of it in 2010. This observatory satellite recorded high-resolution images of the "music" in a banana-shaped magnetic structure or coronal loop in the corona. These loops vibrate like strings on a musical instrument and their music sounds a bit like elephant communication or whale song.

In mid-2011 it seemed evident that the melting polar and subpolar ice of earth evaporated in part and landed on the Midwest US as heavy cold rain storming from March through May, followed immediately by hot house temperatures on the upper 80s and 90s with a heat index in the 100s.

In Michigan, where June has a bit of snow during its first week every few years, temperatures were in the 90s with heat indexes over 100°, with heavy hot winds. Ohio had it all - hot winds, heavy night rains, and high daylight temperatures. Rather than Michigan, it was tropical Hawaii that received snow. During all this, Arizona was the victim of vast amounts of space burned out by a single untended campfire. The weather was so hot and windy in the Midwest last week that I had to believe it was coming from Arizona. Then I heard that the astronauts of the ISS saw a solar flare that covered 50% of the sun's surface. Flares like these of such magnitude can alter our weather even more.

Sunspot activity and solar storms are predicted to cause power outages in a full blackout at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

The data below will help to explain how sunspots, solar storms, and solar weather affect our energy and communications systems on Earth. Sunspots may also affect global warming and cooling.

Sun Spots are all a part of the sun's (Sol's) weather activity.

These Sun Spots (or sunspots) can affect earth's weather and have some effect upon hurricane seasons and perhaps even global warming cycles. I know from experince that they can interfere with radio signals. In addition, I think there may be an impact possible from what they signify (Solar Weather increases) on our ocean tides and other elements, much like the anectdotal effects of the moon on the earth and its people, especially their minds and odder activities. It is a favorite joke with some to blame odd occurences on Luna and Sun Spot activity.

Yes, Sol has weather and it affects Earth's weather as well. The solar wind blows down (or over depending on your spatial orientation) to earth and sun spots may even have a dramatic effect on the earth's weather and radio- and telecommunications.

The earth has in the late 20th - early 21st centuries experienced the highest level and intensity of sun spot activity that has occurred within the last few hundred years, since before America became a nation. Some researchers claim 200 years, other say it is 400 years, but we have a chart below which you can read and and decide.

The last 11-year sub spot cycle ended in 2007, and we have been at a Solar Minimum, meaning that there has been very little sun spot activity and at times, none at all. Sol is resting, some would say. Others say it is the "calm before the storm" or the "eye of the hurricane" and that we can expect bad things to come in the near future . They may be correct.

If and when the Auroras near the North and South poles become more visible, this will be a signal of heavier Solar Weather approaching. Per an old proverb sailors still use about weather, with benefit of an additional line:

Red Sky at night,

Sailor's delight,

Red Sky at morning,

Sailors take warning

Big Auroras to North or South, dive the submarine!

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When sun spots begin to emerge on the sun's surface again, Sol is entering its next cycle or season of extreme solar activity. The Solar Maximum is like our hurricane season on earth, but with fire and particles instead of wind and water.

At the solar cycle's peak, this Solar Maximum, the sun's surface is continually dashed with spots, solar flares erupt far out into this solar system, and Sol emits billion-ton clouds of electrified gas into outer space. All life seems to start form electricity, even the life of a star such as Sol. Put over-simply, electricity is made possible by negative and positive particles, and the negative flow because of the phenomena of the positive and negative in close proximity.

This positive and negative are part of the inspiration of Yin and Yang, the Opposites. It is also part of the underlying thread of description of Heaven and Hell in our cultures that accept them. Without negative and positive charges -We would all be in Heaven, actually, some say, because our Universe would have drained down a black hole. But all that is another Hub!

To me, the Yang Blue Dragon holding earth from soaring away into the dimensions and the Yin White Tiger holding her up are the positive and negative particles that are in balance to maintain earth - or they are the hands of God. Sun Spots indicate electricity flowing, increased weather on Sol and weather changes ahead for earth - a disruption in the peaceful balance.

Space weather is a complicated interrelated series of happenings that begin inside Sol's core. These events build up like a volcano and then radiate out to reach the rim of our solar system and they keep traveling until they are dissipated. Think of an electric current or a flashlight beam flashing out until it is so thin as to be invisible and will not shock you when you put your hand into it.

All of the weather events are carried upon a Solar Wind like a surf-boarder or like the dirt in the Dust Bowl of 1938 Oklahoma and Texas, so powerful that you could not see through it and had to wear a wet table napkin over your face to be able to breathe.

Most of this solar weather is invisible and has been thought to be harmless, but this has come into question., Some severe storms disrupt Earth's magnetic field and result in the Auroras, so beautiful that we stand transfixed in their presence, but which also cause electrical blackouts, and strange things in radio and TV broadcasts -- like being able to hear Moscow in Columbus or see Dayton TV stations on non-cable TV. Some people claim that increased sun spot activity even coincides with increasing numbers of UFO Sightings and higher incidences of Crop Circles and Crime just like the Full Moon. Watch the film Frequency for a version of radio impact.

The photos and graphics in this presentation are all free from NASA and in the public domain. NASA provides quantities of these and other information cards to Sceince Fiction Conventions, schools, clubs, and other events and entities. Hundreds of shots, display cards, and animations are available for free viewing and download at www.nasa.gov .

You can see a definite pattern of sun spot cylces in the above graphic representation. A Solar Maximum high in the sun's weather events centers around the year 2000, actually occured in 2001 and a bit later and the Solar Minimum covered the end of 2007 with almost zero activity. Activity is shown to be the highest in over 200 years from around 1970 - 1996.

Sun Spot Patterns on the Surface of Sol

Sunspots do not emerge over the entire surface of the Sun, but only a limited area around the Solar Equator.

They remain largely concentrated in two bandwidths, about 20 degrees wide in latitude and reaching around the entire sun on both sides of the Solar Equator. This would be like two belts around the center of the sun.The equator is also the warmest part of the earth, only Sol's is several magnitudes greater in heat and becomes HOTTER during the emergence of the sun spots. Sunspots don't cause the higher heat, they are an indicator of it (a sign), like your face turning red when you have a high fever.

The average latitude of the two belts changes inside the 11-year spot cycle. Just after the Solar Minimum, sunspots are visible at around 25 to 30 degrees North and South Solar Lattitude. Fresher, newer spots come out increasingly close to the Solar Equator and the last spots before Solar Minimum show up at 5 to 10 degrees North and South Solar Lattitude and then all acticity nearly stops dead.

Thus, strong weather occurs over a cycle of 11 years and is manifested by two belts of sun spots that occur closer and closer to the Solar Equater until they stop altogether. The sun is a ball of hot gases and this increasing weather activity is part of the natural life cycle of a star.

A newer Outer Limits episode from the 1990s told the story of the earth just before Sol went nova. A people from another star system that had experienced this type of event sent prescribed music to the youth of earth that resulted at first in pain; however, a metallic skin covering formed over their skins that protected them from the increased heat and light.

In actuality, if the sun goes nova at this time, building energy and "exploding", then the earth will likely burn to a cinder or evaporate into particles that will spread out into the Universe as far as the flashlight beam mentioned earlier.