Quick Look at Current Cycle 25 Conditions:
(Data rounded to nearest whole number)
Sunspots:
Observed Monthly, December 2022: 113
12-month smoothed, June 2022: 81
10.7-cm Flux:
Observed Monthly, December 2022: 148
12-month smoothed, June 2022: 123
One Year Ago:
(Data rounded to nearest whole number)
Sunspots:
Observed Monthly, December 2021: 69
12-month smoothed, June 2021: 28
10.7-cm Flux:
Observed Monthly, December 2021: 87
12-month smoothed, June 2021: 103
As we pointed out before: One recent study suggests that Cycle 25 could be one of the strongest since record keeping began. Look at the progress of the cycle in The latest 10.7-cm Radio Flux for the month of January 2023 was 182.5, much higher than the predicted 100.4. Clearly, we