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Happens every 11 or so years. We are now seeing the impacts of a potential geomagnetic flip, the first one in 700K years or so. With a weaker field there will be more cosmic ray strikes on the upper atmosphere. This makes me wonder if they are going to have to re-calibrate the C14 baselines for radiocarbon dating. Also, if the geomagnetic field is weakening are there going to be impacts on the health of astronauts in low earth orbit? are new satellites going to need extra radiation hardening? Is this going to puff up the stratosphere and mesosphere layers of the atmosphere and help deorbit some of the bits of space junk in orbit? The last solar maximum did squat for helping the space garbage problems after all.