{"id":8708,"date":"2025-05-13T16:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:34:49","slug":"have-we-passed-the-peak-of-solar-cycle-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=8708","title":{"rendered":"Have we passed the peak of Solar Cycle 25?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wb4son.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cycle25-as-of-April.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5238\" src=\"https:\/\/wb4son.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cycle25-as-of-April-1024x428.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wb4son.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cycle25-as-of-April-1024x428.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wb4son.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cycle25-as-of-April-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wb4son.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cycle25-as-of-April-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wb4son.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Cycle25-as-of-April.jpg 1079w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The above graph from NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center certainly hints that we are now on the downward slope of Cycle 25.\u00a0 Things will continue to be grand until the sunspot number slips below 100, which shouldn\u2019t happen until about 2027.\u00a0 And, of course, the initial predictions for Cycle 25 were wildly off to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>We shall see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above graph from NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Prediction Center certainly hints that we are now on the downward slope of Cycle 25.\u00a0 Things will continue to be grand until the sunspot number slips below 100, which shouldn\u2019t happen until about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/?p=8708\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8709,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w1sye.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}