Sunspots: Kev will fix them

Update: The UK is in the grip of its longest cold snap for almost 30 years.
As the Sun get tricky?

"SUNSPOT SURGE: 2009 is ending with a flurry of sunspots. If the past two years have taught us anything, however, it is that the sun can be tricky and unpredictable."

ETS to the rescue?

Also Sunspot Plotter allows you to compare solar activity and many historical events

Severe Space Weather At the moment, no one knows when the next super solar storm will erupt. It could be 100 years away or just 100 days.

2008 is now the "blankest year" of the Space Age