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Well, my sunspot postings may be getting old but look below at the current picture of the Sun and tell me what is STILL missing:

No Sunspots

I posted an article about this nearly a year ago.  Still no sunspots.

Since I posted that article, the world has had some strange weather.  Both Europe and the US had colder than normal winters with the entire island of Great Britain covered by snow.   This summer I have friends from around the world mentioning the weather is either hotter or colder than normal.  Istanbul, Turkey, is experiencing colder than normal summers at a time where it should be very humid.  Another friend told me that the tornadoes in the US are landing further north than in the area known as “Tornado Alley”.

The US is experiencing record scorching heat.  Here in Vietnam, there are droughts in part of the country and the rainy season is pretty much absent.  We even had a downpour for about 30 minutes that did not leave that much standing water, most of the moisture either evaporated or was seeped into the ground.

How does this relate to an absence of sunspots???  Hmm, how?  Strange weather, lack of sunspots, I do not know.  Maybe the sun does influence the Earth more than the pro-global warming scientists want to admit…

Maybe, as I joked late last year, Saigon will really see snow this winter…

Well, as I start getting back to blogging about my life in Saigon again, I decided to give an update on the sunspot situation with our Sun.  It seems that some activity are finally returning but not really much.  The below image was taken on Dec. 17, 2009:

The most recent image shows very few sunspots as well taken from the NASA website:

I am not putting two and two together but the US and Europe got nailed by unusual snowstorms last week didn’t they?

Sunspots have returned   Maybe it will not snow in Saigon now?

Before I decided to combine ExpatPramatist.com with SaigonNezumi.com, I was keeping an eye on the lack of sunspots during the 24th sunspot cycle.  The photo below was taken about 6 days ago.  You can see the lack of sunspots in the picture which has baffled scientists and many others.   Some scientists are beginning to argue that the lack of sunspots may actually have an impact on the Earth’s climate.  This happened in the past especially during the periods of 1645-1715 known as the Little Ice Age where canals in the Netherlands froze in the winter.  We may possibly be entering another mini Ice Age according to some…

Hmm, should I bring my Russian fur hat and Kazakh leather jacket to Saigon before Winter approaches?

(No sunspots – Source: Bangor Daily News)

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