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John, every month, NOAA publishes an updated graph giving us the last month's activity

of the Sunspots on the Earth-facing hemisphere of the Sun. That's how they count these.

And for almost the entire ramp up to solar maximum, it's probably going to occur in 2025.

The number of Sunspots and the activity on the Sun has been much higher than the prediction,

much higher. However, since January, there had been kind of a pause. The Sunspot did not

ramp up anymore. It was kind of stabilized at a certain number over six months. It just

wasn't going down a little, go up a little, go down a little, but it just was staying

at a middle level, which implied possibly that maybe we were not going to head to much

stronger maximum than predicted. But nope, in December, there was a gigantic burst of

activity for the month. And in fact, the amount of activity in December on the Sun was the

most we've seen on the Sun in September 2014, which was near the end of the previous

maximum. And in fact, the amount of activity that occurred in December almost matched the

maximum expected three years hence in 25. This very strongly implies that the next maximum

of the Sun is going to be a strong one. When we're at minimum of the science, fellow

science community, a few of those scientists get together at a panel at NOAA and they make

their prediction. They made a prediction. And this is the largest number of solar scientists.

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