The 2025 Old Farmer’s Almanac is predicting more temperate weather ahead as an active period of sunspot activity comes to an end.

It’s long been known that solar flares and sunspots have a direct impact on the weather here on Earth.

An 11-12 year period of increased sunspot activity is now coming to an end says Carol Connare, editor in chief of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, causing them to predict more temperate weather in the years ahead.

“That affects all kinds of things” says Connare “like the warmth of the oceans and the jet stream, and so it’s been kind of a wild ride through cycle 25” which ended with a “big burst.” They’re predicting some less extreme weather now that the increased solar activity is ebbing.