I hope that you are right it is a mini Ice Age. Based on previous cycles, we are past due for a real “Ice Age” - the kind with mile-high ice over Seattle. (2 miles thick in Chicago iirc).
BTW - we currently are in an “Ice Age” (being the latest geologic time period there is). But - we are in an “inter-glacial period - so in between the big glaciations.
I’ve done the math, and I pray that I’m wrong. Unlike the climate, which is a chaotic dynamical system (100% unpredictable), the solar cycles are very predictable. The sun is cooling down. Al Gore is an idiot.
Yes, the last “real Ice Age” nearly killed off humans. We’ll do better next time - maybe a billion of us will survive...
I got up to check on our animals & my shop: NWS says 4 deg. F, with a degree or 2 drop left by 7 am, but they are SE of us — thermometer on my back porch (fairly accurate) says -1 now. That’s about 30 deg. below our normal low. Brrr...!