THis High Solar activity lately, will it have any effect on weather patterns, or does it just give us.........?

There are a few theories that cosmic radiations may influence our weather by precipitating the condensation of clouds. The Dane scientist Henrik Svensmark came with the idea a few years ago. But it is still controversial.

Otherwise, the 11 years sun's cycle of solar sport has no direct effect on the weather itself other than giving us the beautiful northern light that happens in the ionosphere, 85 km above us, far, far away from the troposphere where the weather happens. The latter is between 12 and 18 km high.

Another side effect of the sun spot cycle is the fact that it creates layers of reflection for the long radio waves, to the great pleasure of radio amateurs who can, during that time, contact people on the other side of the earth, with very little output. I have, myself, a couple of decades ago, made a contact from Norway to New Zealand, using Morse signals with as little as 5 watts effect. Amazing!

I'm fairly certain the Sun has a bearing on the Earth's climate but as for this winter, the La Nina conditions in the Pacific point to a cold one for most of North America and Europe as has been the case for the past few winters.