Re: [CQ-Contest] At least four more years of solar minimum?

["Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>]

I agree, it seems strange.  The first bit of cycle peak for cycle 24 was 
in the fall of 2011.  This would place a minimum nearly 10 years after 
the prior max.
73 Rich NN3W

On 12/8/2018 12:38 PM, Bob Shohet, KQ2M wrote:
> It would be helpful if they indicated why their prediction for the next 4 years 
> is so dramatically different from that the end of previous sunspot cycles.  
> This prediction would indicate an especially elongated cycle approaching almost 
> 14 years in length, which to my knowledge, has not been seen in our lifetimes.
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> Count me as a skeptic of their latest prediction.
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> 73
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> Bob  KQ2M
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> NOAA updated its predictions for smoothed sunspot numbers and solar flux 
> through the end of 2022. As of last month, their predictions ended in 2019.
> Their prediction shows a smoothed sunspot number of 10 for December 2018, 
> declining to 2 in July 2020 through January 2021, then 1 during February 2021 
> through January 2022, and 0 after that and through at least the end of 2022.
> www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
> I hate predictions, especially about the future...
> 73
> Frank
> W3LPL
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