HAM RADIO NEWS
Jul 01, 2021
4 minutes
A Kickstart for Cycle 25?
he solar scientist who’s been bucking the tide of pessimism from most of his colleagues and predicting a huge sunspot cycle (see News Bytes, Sept. 2020 issue) continues to see lots and lots of spots in the future. According to, Scott McIntosh of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, along with colleague Bob Leamon of the University of Maryland / Baltimore County, are predicting that a “terminator event,” in which oppositely charged magnetic fields collide near the sun’s equator and annihilate each other, will be occurring soon. This is a normal occurrence between solar cycles, they say, but the key
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