Actually when you have a solar minimum, there is MORE heat coming from the sun - because sunspots are cooler areas of the sun and during a 'minimum' there's bugger all sunspot activity. So solar maximums tend to be cooler and minimums tend to be warmer. At least in Australia that is true! Our bushfire season in 2019/2020 with the last solar minimum was AWFUL. However, the current solar cycle looks like it will be higher, so perhaps it won't go down so low after, either, so maybe in about 8 years we won't have terrifying bushfires that burn half our country again...!
There is also something else to consider: there is often more 'stormy' weather when pronounced solar minimums happen (ie really low minimums). So if you get cold weather in winter somewhere, well, in more pronounced solar minimums, maybe you get REALLY cold weather - with wild snowstorms etc. Or if you get bushfires in summer somewhere, maybe during that pronounced solar minimum you might get REALLY bad bushfires (like what happened in Oz in 2019/2020).
Things are not always as straightforward as one thinks - and what's happening now has invariably happened at some time in the past!
Here are a couple of interesting links to delve into the past with:
https://premium.weatherweb.net/weather-in-history-1800-to-1849-ad/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
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