1. Solar cycle period is inversely proportional to solar cycle amplitude. In other words, on average a short solar cycle will be a weak solar cycle.
2. I don’t have time to find a chart which this writer should have displayed showing that Cycle 24 was a weak cycle, and that Cycle 25 is predicted to be weak as well.
3. Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) drives el ninos roughly every 11 years. Cycle 24 was so weak Pacific circulation has been weak. This caused a weak el nino to happen two years early. It would not surprise me if the weakness of North Pacific circulation is causing the dry pattern in the Northeastern Pacific land mass.
**OOPS! 1. should say: Solar cycle period is DIRECTLY proportional to solar cycle amplitude. In other words, on average a short solar cycle will be a weak solar cycle.