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The Maunder Minimum
Little Ice Age

The Maunder Minimum, also known as the "prolonged sunspot minimum," is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.

The term was introduced after John A. Eddy published a landmark 1976 paper in Science.[1] Astronomers before Eddy had also named the period after the solar astronomers Annie and E. Walter Maunder (1851–1928) who studied how sunspot latitudes changed with time.[2] The period the husband and wife team examined included the second half of the 17th century.

A connection between low sunspot activity and cold winters has recently been made using data from the NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment.

Shows solar UV output is more variable over the course of the solar cycle than scientists had previously thought.

In 2011 an article was published in the Nature Geoscience journal ties low solar activity to mild winters in some places (southern Europe and Canada) and colder winters in others (northern Europe and the United States).

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Weather Events of 535–536

The extreme weather events of 535–536 were the most severe and protracted short-term episodes of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years.

Its effects were widespread, causing unseasonal weather, crop failures, and famines worldwide.

--The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, in his report on the wars with the Vandals,
"during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness...and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear."

--The Gaelic Irish Annals record the following:

"A failure of bread in the year 536 AD" - the Annals of Ulster
"A failure of bread from the years 536–539 AD" - the Annals of Inisfallen

--Low temperatures, even snow during the summer (snow reportedly fell in August in China, which caused the harvest there to be delayed

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Fimbulwinter

In Norse mythology, Fimbulvetr (or fimbulvinter), commonly rendered in English as Fimbulwinter, is the immediate prelude to the events of Ragnarök. It simpy means ''Mighty Winter".

Fimbulvetr is the harsh winter that precedes the end of the world and puts an end to all life on Earth. Fimbulwinter is three successive winters where snow comes in from all directions, without any intervening summer.

This mythology might be related to the extreme weather events of 535–536 which resulted in a notable drop in temperature across northern Europe. There have also been several popular ideas about whether or not this particular piece of mythology has a connection to the climate change that occurred in the Nordic countries at the end of the Nordic Bronze Age dating from about 650 BC. Before this climate change, the Nordic countries were considerably warmer.

In Denmark, Norway, Sweden and other Nordic countries, the term fimbulvinter is still used to refer to an unusually cold and harsh winter.

The Sun's Magnetic Field is about to Flip

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Solstorm Caused Outage


The storm that reached Earth's magnetic field on Wednesday morning, due to extremely high magnetic activity in the sun's surface. Proton Rain, X-rays and high energy particles ejected and when it reached the Earth's magnetic field generated magnetic storms.

It was a 130-kilovolt transmission line that was knocked out, but after troubleshooting, the electricity supplier Sydkraft Nets failed to find any fault at its own lines that can explain the power outage. Instead, they work with the hypothesis that there were geomagnetic currents caused by solar storms, which knocked out the system.