Since we have not had much Solar Surface Activity at all for the past 12 months, and since the Southern Hemisphere just went through one of its coldest winters ever, chances are very good that the Northern Hemisphere is about to experience two of the worst winter months those of us alive have ever experienced. A monster winter storm is coming in off the Pacific right now. This will be just the first Train of Storms we will experience in January. Temperatures after these storms pass through should dip very low and we may see record lows by mid to late January. Expect very heavy snow. We just had a decent Solar Flare show up on the Sun, but other then that is has been little or no activity. Cosmic Ray levels are high and this will create heavy precipitation. The good news is that our drought problems should be gone.
IIRC, the solar cycles go this way. There is an eleven year cycle of min-max solar activity.
But there is a cycle-within-a-cycle, where every 225 years or so, the cycle is not as strong as it normally is.
When the cycle is at a low point (as they think it is now), there is a measurable and pronounced effect on the weather.
It cools down significantly.