The 'maximum' will finally come in the heat of the summer next year: July 2025. 'We could easily get much bigger storms over the next year or two,' Dr. Jonathan McDowell told DailyMail.com.
At 2019's 'solar minimum,' the number of visible sunspots on the sun's surface was effectively zero, but at the coming maximum in July 2025, the US National Space Weather Prediction Center has estimated that there could be up to 115 sunspots.
While the 11-year solar cycle only raises the total radiation coming out of the sun a deceptively small 0.1 percent, that excess is very concentrated in sunspot activity.
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