This is CBSI on the world.

Behind the Black, I'm John Batchel, Bob Zimmerman is here.

We go to an update on the sunspot count and the significance of it we don't know.

But we count them.

Bob, Parker made a record fly by the sun recently, exploring mysteries of the sun. I've learned to say we don't

know nothing, and what we do know, we probably don't know. So the Sunspot update, we do have that.

What direction now, Bob? This is an interesting thing in behind the block. Every month, for 15 years,

I've been posting Sunspot updates and when I did my update this week

at the start of January I discovered I forgot to do it in December that's a that's that's uh

unprecedented the first time I forgot nobody knows and one one of the reasons no one notices that

the changes from month to month sometimes aren't that significant. And in fact, it hasn't been that significant.

The real question is the sun's not maximum over or will there be another double peak maximum?

We had a major maximum several months ago, peak, much higher than predicted, much lower than other predictions, much, much on, they don't know what's going on. So as you

said, John, they don't really know what's going on. And it then dropped. And we've now been in a

lower activity period for about one or two days for four months. And the real question is,

is it going to start to ramp down to a minimum at this point, which would be

interesting because that means the maximum would be very, very early? Or are we going to see

another peak? A double peak? That would be the second double peak maximum in a row. And that

could be the case. And once again, we have to remember they don't really know anything because

though we know some spots happen on an 11-year cycle approximately, with periodic long

minimums over decades where there's no maximum at all, they don't understand really the magnetic

processes in the sun that cause this cycle of sunspots. They know the sunspots are formed

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