Talk:Where are the flares

To add to your tale, looks like this latest region (see today's solarmonitor) is old cycle. Any historical evidence as to when old cycle regions should stop appearing?

- James McAteer, Trinity College Dublin (July 22)

There's a nice plot that Leif Svalgaard put in our Nugget No. 99 that separates the sunspot number into old-cycle and new-cycle components. This isn't often done, he says, and in this case it shows a much clearer separation than in the previous cycles, as I recall.

I had noticed the old-cycleness of that little region - there is also some blather in the daily message regarding an E limb appearance, but I don't see anything in STEREO particularly.

Hugh

Pages 3 (bottom) and 4 in: http://www.leif.org/research/Most%20Recent%20IMF,%20SW,%20and%20Solar%20Data.pdf

show the transition across minima for cycles 21->23, 22->23, 23-> 24 The current overlap of cycles is still mild compared with the past.

Leif