Still very little sunspot activity

According to a letter linked from this Solar Science post:

A few scientists have even claimed that we might be headed into another Solar Minimum. For the past few months, the actual sunspot numbers have been below NOAA’s lower predicted threshold, approaching zero.

Here are some sites that provide information on current solar activity:

1. spaceweather.com

2. Rice Space Institute

3. Solar Influences Data Center

4. Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

5. solarcycle24.com

It seems that Solar Cycle 24 is late.

According to David Archibald in October 2007:

Each day’s delay in the onset of Solar Cycle 24 means that the world will be 1.4 thousands of a degree cooler during that cycle. That doesn’t sound like much, but days become weeks, which run into months, and then years, and each year of delay is good for a half degree decline in temperature. If you are expecting three years of delay, as I am, that amounts to one and a half degrees.