Solar flares & a deep solar minimum On May 29, 2009, NASA reported that “an international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. ‘If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak
sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle ...