If the pattern repeats, be prepared for winters that are colder and more snowy than prior averages over the next few years, with impacts on fuel prices (due to increased heating demands) and food prices (due to reduced growing seasons).
And it’s instructive that the middle line, which shows the actual number of sunspots, has been moving straight to the right, rather than curving up, since early 2008. NASA predicted that the number of sunspots would start increasing at the end of 2007, because that’s what had happened for the previous 10 cycles, or so. They had to keep moving that ‘trending up’ line to the right, every month that the sunspots didn’t return. We’ve gone almost two years without any appreciable amount of sunspots, and though this new cycle has begun, the number of sunspots has been anemic, at best. That ‘trending up’ line, might stay more level, than not, for a while, in which case, this could mean a Solar Minimum.