Maunder Minimum

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I have been intrigued by the stance of Valentina Zharkova regarding possible effects of the Maunder Minimum that started this year.

One look at this -- https://electroverse.net/professor-valen...2020-2055/

Anyway, extreme predictions aside, her work made me pay more attention to the weather in Europe this year.

April was HOT -- hot like the previous two years which saw some blistering heat waves across the continent.

Then the heat "disappeared".  We've had a few hot days since then, but nothing like the last two years.

Now into the second week in July . . . lots and lots of cool, rainy days.  (Good for the local water table).  Unseasonably cool.

Kind of makes me wonder if Professor Zharkova isn't onto something about a coming little ice age.

Cheers