Our sun is reaching the end of it’s normal 11 year cycle and is approaching a period of Minimum Solar Activity. This one’s being dubbed the Grand Solar Minimum.
How Does the Sun Affect Earth’s Climate?
This affects us because Earth’s climate gets cooler when there are fewer solar storms. The extreme example happened between 1645 and 1715 when the normal 11-year sunspot cycle vanished.
This period, called the Maunder Minimum, was accompanied by bitterly cold winters in the American colonies.
Fishing settlements in Iceland and Greenland were abandoned.
Icebergs were seen near the English channel. The canals of Venice froze. It was a time of great hardship.
To be continued on
https://www.almanac.com/news/astronomy/astronomy/solar-minimum-approaching-mini-ice-age
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