{"id":49248,"date":"2021-06-12T08:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49248"},"modified":"2021-06-12T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T12:20:07","slug":"a-super-charged-solar-cycle-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/a-super-charged-solar-cycle-25\/","title":{"rendered":"A Super-Charged Solar Cycle 25?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting post from spaceweather.com about two scientists who believe they have found evidence of solar activity which might indicate a super-cycle rivaling the best solar cycles ever recorded. (I, for one, would be thrilled for this since the last such super-cycle seems to have been before I was born, and that was a real long time ago!)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the article at spaceweather.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"bwacFKH5mh\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceweatherarchive.com\/2021\/06\/11\/the-termination-event\/\">The Termination Event<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The Termination Event&#8221; &#8212; Spaceweather.com\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweatherarchive.com\/2021\/06\/11\/the-termination-event\/embed\/#?secret=ESZM1kXiyo#?secret=bwacFKH5mh\" data-secret=\"bwacFKH5mh\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>73,Robert<\/p>\n<p><em>Robert Gulley, K4PKM (formerly AK3Q), is the author of this post and <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/author\/robert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a regular contributor<\/a> to the SWLing Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting post from spaceweather.com about two scientists who believe they have found evidence of solar activity which might indicate a super-cycle rivaling the best solar cycles ever recorded. (I, for one, would be thrilled for this since the last such super-cycle seems to have been before I was born, and that was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cOk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62835,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/a-new-solar-cycle-wrinkle\/","url_meta":{"origin":49248,"position":0},"title":"A New Solar Cycle Wrinkle","author":"Robert Gulley","date":"May 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article caught my attention on spaceweather.com concerning new research on what is called the Gleissberg Cycle. 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