PROPAGATION
A Quick Look at Current Cycle 25 Conditions
(Data rounded to nearest whole number)
Sunspots:
Observed Monthly, January 2021: 11
12-month smoothed, July 2020: 8
10.7-cm Flux:
Observed Monthly, January 2021: 76
12-month smoothed, July 2020: 74
One Year Ago
(Data rounded to nearest whole number)
Sunspots:
Observed Monthly, January 2020: 4
12-month smoothed, July 2019: 2
10.7-cm Flux:
Observed Monthly, January 2020: 72
12-month smoothed, July 2019: 70
Helio-scientists have confirmed that Solar Cycle 25 has indeed begun after carefully observing and analyzing the solar cycle data. As the name implies, this is the 25th solar cycle since records of sunspots began in the mid-18th century.
Analysis puts the solar minimum between Cycles 24 and 25, that period when the Sun has barely any sunspot activity (sometimes weeks without a single sunspot), in December 2019. That month, the 13-month smoothed sunspot count fell to 1.8, according to the Solar Cycle 24 Prediction Panel, which is co-chaired by NOAA and NASA. The panel predicts that peak sunspot activity
