The blue chart clearly shows how the 1961-1994 heavy daily winter rainfall pattern mirrors the 11-year solar cycle trend. Data from 1995 to 2000 is predicted, not actual data, but clearly shows how the heavy rainfall and flooding in the winter of 2000 was predictable.

61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80	81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00

The orange chart below shows the peak activity for each solar cycle between 1614 and 1990, and the longer term 88 year solar cycle. The upward slope will continue (unless observations reveal that the trend of the last 250 years is broken!) so that solar-driven climate change and extreme weather will peak in around 2046 and then fall back, thus there will be more trouble ahead in the winters around 2011/2012, 2022/2023, 2034/35 and 2045/46.

16 14		16 45			17 18								18 08								18 98								19 90

The almost total lack of solar activity between 1645 and 1715 corresponds to the well-known mini ice age of that period, when the Thames froze for several winters to a depth of 10 feet and Frost Festivals were held on it.

Sources:
Rainfall: UEA Climatic Research Unit.
Solar Cycle Activity: Dr László Körtvélyessy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences — see also The Electric Universe

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