P Gosselin translates the latest post at Die kalte Sonne on solar activity. The URL link is HERE
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The Sun in March 2016
By Frank Bosse and Fritz Vahrenholt
(Translated, edited by P Gosselin)
Our mother star was once again less active than normal in March. The observed solar sunspot number (SSN) was 54.9, which was about 2/3 of the mean value (82.5) for this month into the cycle. Here’s what the current solar cycle (SC) looks like so far:
Figure 1: The course of the current SC 24 since it began in December 2008, up to March 2016 (month 88) in red, the mean of the previous 23 cycles is shown in blue, and the similarLY (since month 73) behaving solar cycle number 5, which occurred from May 1789 to December 1810, shown in black.
Note the similarity of the current Solar Cycle 24 to Solar Cycle 5 which is associated with the Dalton Minimum. It maybe a little too early to compare similarities with Solar Cycles 5 and 6, leading the planet into another mini ice age, like that during the Dalton Minimum. Or whether this minimum will combine with a lower Solar Cycle 25 which could lead to a 30-year cooling period producing another Little Ice Age, like that during the Maunder Minimum. We will just have to wait and watch the climate evolve as the sunspots decline.
The Next Grand Minimum 
“It maybe a little too early to compare similarities with Solar Cycles 5 and 6, …” ?? I thought we were trying to compare SC5 with the current SC24.
Sorry George, I was attempting to say it is too early to compare the weather similarities, it was cooler during SC-5. It is clear from the chart that the current SC-24 sunspot levels are similar to SC-5. The big question is will SC-25 and SC-6 be similar and will we experience similar cooling experiences during the Dalton Minimum, which also had a 13-year drought, broken by a 3-year El Niño and then more drought.
For some reason, my own post was caught in moderation, delaying the posting.