And if combined with a number of palaeo-wind records gathered from around the continent, it could provide a useful tool to test climate computer models, they believe.

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The site records the wind strength of hurricane and tropical storm winds, and strike probabilities.

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In 2008 and 2009, the sun set Space Age records for low sunspot counts, weak solar wind, and low solar irradiance.

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