Avoiding solar disaster

Maybe we will avoid solar disaster after all. Here is the latest from the NOAA: “Although its peak is still four years away, a new active period of Earth-threatening solar storms will be the weakest since 1928, predicts an international panel of experts led by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center and funded by NASA. However, the panel warns, “Despite the prediction, Earth is still vulnerable to a severe solar storm.”

The NOAA further reports, “The panel predicts the upcoming Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with 90 sunspots per day on average. If the prediction proves true, Solar Cycle 24 will be the weakest cycle since number 16, which peaked at 78 daily sunspots in 1928, and ninth weakest since the 1750s, when numbered cycles began.”

Go to www.spaceweather.gov for the latest report.