Solar Cycle 24 Has Started

Cycle 24 Here, Experts Say (Jan 7, 2008) -- With the appearance of Sunspot 981 -- a high-latitude, reversed polarity sunspot -- on Friday, January 4, experts at NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that Cycle 24 is now here. "This sunspot is like the first robin of spring," said solar physicist Douglas Biesecker of the Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), part of NOAA. "In this case, it's an early omen of solar storms that will gradually increase over the next few years." Read the rest of the story here http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/01/07/100/?nc=1