Spotless Sun
All the indicators are that the Landscheidt minimum is here and that this is going to be close to a Dalton minimum.
2010/12/20 8:00 Five Days in a row spotless is achieved 12 months after solar cycle 24 began it’s ramp up.
A Dalton Minimum Repeat is Shaping Up
The Dalton Minimum was a period of low solar activity, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, lasting from about 1790 to 1830. Like the Maunder Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the Dalton Minimum coincided with a period of lower-than-average global temperatures. The Oberlach Station in Germany, for example, experienced a 2.0°C decline over 20 years. The Year Without a Summer, in 1816, also occurred during the Dalton Minimum. Solar cycles 5 and 6, as shown below, were greatly reduced in amplitude.
http://solarcycle24.com/sunspots.htm
Sunspot number till December 7th
http://www.landscheidt.info/images/sc5_sc24.png
SC5 - SC24 comparison - http://www.landscheidt.info/images/sc5_sc24.png
To compare solar cycles we can also use the F10.7 radio flux values that have been recorded since 1947 in Canada. Solar cycle 20 was a weak cycle which is currently looking strong against solar cycle 24. Data is taken from the AU adjusted monthly average values.
Tags: Dalton minimim, Landscheidt Minimum, SC24, solar cycle, Solar minimum
The k2p blog 
December 21, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Yes, we are in a Landscheidt minimum. Debris from the Oort Cloud and Kuiper belt are no longer slamming into the Sun. This is because the center of gravity of the solar system has move out beyond the surface of the Sun, steering this debris away from it. So, fewer sunspots are produced. We should see globing cooling for the next 80 years at which time it will be like the early 1800s. Then it should slowly warm up for the next 130 years or so until we reach something similar to the Medieval Warming Period. See: http://landscheidt.wordpress.com/