[CQ-Contest] The first indicators that Solar Cycle 25 may be similar in amplitude to Cycle 24

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Until mid-2014 Solar Cycle 24 was remarkably quiet. Despite the 
steadily declining solar flux since mid-2014, the Sun’s large-scale 
magnetic field suddenly strengthened late in 2014 reaching its 
highest value in more than twenty years . Using these and related 
observations, two Naval Research Laboratory researchers, Wang 
and Sheehy, predict in their August 2015 article in The Astrophysical 
Journal that Solar Cycle 25 may reach an amplitude similar to Solar 
Cycle 24. 


Until the unexpectedly sudden and strong increase in the Sun’s large- 
scale magnetic field, some solar scientists feared that S olar Cycle 25 
might achieve a much lower amplitude than Cycle 24. Those fears 
might now be put to rest. 

http://aasnova.org/2015/09/02/witnessing-solar-rejuvenation