A few days ago, NASA published a new forecast for the next solar cycle. According to her, the maximum should be in four years in May 2013, while the number of sunspots will probably be below average. The twenty-fourth solar cycle should thus be one of the weakest since 1928, when the number of sunspots reached 78. This is how the cycle forecast looks like in graphic form:
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