{"id":7848,"date":"2010-12-30T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2011-02-25T20:56:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T03:56:34","slug":"major-solar-disruptions-looming-in-the-year-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/major-solar-disruptions-looming-in-the-year-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Solar Disruptions Looming in the Year Ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence.<\/p>\n<p>Many people may be surprised to learn that the Sun, rather than burn with faultless consistency, goes through moments of calm and tempest.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBut two centuries of observing sunspots &#8212; dark, relatively cool marks on the solar face linked to mighty magnetic forces &#8212; have revealed that our star follows a roughly 11-year cycle of behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The latest cycle began in 1996 and for reasons which are unclear has taken longer than expected to end.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, there are more and more signs that the Sun is shaking off its torpor and building towards &#8220;Solar Max,&#8221; or the cycle&#8217;s climax, say experts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2010\/12\/forecasters-eye-looming-solar-max\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence. Many people may be surprised to learn that the Sun, rather than burn with faultless consistency, goes through moments of calm and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-disasters","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}