Gavin P's latest updates on Gavsweathervids have got me quite interested. He's been looking at UK temperature and precipitation data for summer 2020 and August 2020. He's homed in on analogous years which fit the criteria for both summer in general and August in particular. The results for the following winters throw up quite a number of memorable ones from a very limited number. They range from an epic like 1947 to under-rated ones like 1990/1.
Well worth a read:
https://www.gavsweathervids.com/winter-2020-21-weather-forecast.php
I'm getting interested now that we're moving out of solar minimum. I get the impression that if there really is a link between solar cycles and cold winters, it tends to favour winters a year or two after the new one gets going, rather than ones right in the depths of solar minimum (!978-9 would be a good example, along with 1947 itself).
So, my ultra-long range prediction would be for this winter to be one featuring a good snowy spell, along the lines of 1977-78, with next year, 2021-22, being a 1978-79-style humdinger!
2 miles west of Taunton, 32 m asl, where "milder air moving in from the west" becomes SNOWMAGEDDON.
Well, two or three times a decade it does, anyway.