Looking for another record to be broken. If we see it broken five years in a row, we might want to start worrying if the next minimum has arrived.
The ice at Nenana, Alaska is over four feet thick , and getting thicker.
Normally it breaks up this week, and the latest it has ever broken up is two weeks from now.
Climate experts tell us that Alaska is the “canary in the coal mine”
Scientists say Alaska is like a canary in a coal mine, foreshadowing the types of changes we can expect for the rest of the world.
Scientific American Frontiers . Hot Times in Alaska. Canary in a Coal Mine | PBS
The Next Grand Minimum 
In which coal mine is this canary going into distress – Global Warming or Global Cooling?
I am voting for cooling
Solar Cycle 24 is now on the wane… but we are still seeing headlines about the great potential threats of solar storms. The headlines should instead be about our sun possibly going dormant, and then the soon to be unusable Canadian crop land. It only takes slightly cooler and wetter springs to mess up wheat crops not only in Canada, but as far south as Oklahoma. The threshold is not hard to cross. We saw it begin to happen just a few years ago at the end of the last minimum, when Oklahoma’s and Kansas’ wheat crops were severely damaged after a long persistent winter dragged on until the end of April with killing freezes.