Solar Activity Drops to 100 Year Low

Prompting comparisons with the Maunder Minimum.

“The current peak in the solar cycle is the weakest for a century,” says this article in India Times.

“Subdued solar activity has prompted controversial comparisons with the Maunder Minimum, which occurred between 1645 and 1715, when a prolonged absence of sunspots and other indicators of solar activity coincided with the coldest period in the last millennium.”

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Solar-activity-drops-to-100-year-low-puzzl ing-scientists/articleshow/22719807.cms

Thanks to Steven Woodcock for this link