There have been scientists predicting a solar minimum event happening in either this upcoming solar cycle(25), or the one following it(26) since 2004. Of course, there are a few others who predicted it would start as early as the currently concluding solar cycle(24). So we'll have to see.
We do know the trend for the past couple cycles has been diminishing intensity, and the current transition certainly doesn't indicate a likely increase. In fact, just about every forecast I'm aware of expects SC25 to be less active than SC24, what is in dispute is the intensity of the decline. Which isn't to mention that for the ones predicting minimums, there is a split on it being a Dalton or Maunder Minimum type event.
As per wiki, there also is significant dispute as whether or not Solar Cycles even impact the Earth's climate in any significant way, because past solar minimums have also happened to coincide with large volcanic eruption events, so the tendency is to attribute any cooling from those periods to volcanism instead. (And also consequently suggests there is a possible link between solar cycles and volcanic activity that is yet to be understood)
Of course, how the wiki editors managed to double-think their way through that one I don't know. As they basically went:
1) There is little evidence to support solar minimums impact climate.
2) There is evidence to support that solar minimums impact volcanic activity.
3) This is evidence to support Volcanic activity significantly increases during a solar minimum, and that increase in activity is sufficient enough to impact the climates.

This also ignores the observed behavior regarding Earth's atmosphere during solar cycles. High sunspot activity correlates to thicker atmosphere(more drag on satellites, shorter operational life for low orbiting satellites), while low sunspot activity correlates to the atmosphere "thinning" in that it contracts until it is closer to earth's surface than it would be during a period of high sunspot activity. And atmospheric height is understood to play an influential role in behavior of the jet stream.
"Short"(thin) atmospheric columns cause the jet streams to wander more, while "tall"(thick) atmospheric columns cause the jet stream to become more stable. And of course, an unstable jet stream would mean more occasions for things like a polar vortex to happen.
Which would account for how Solar Cycle 24(December 2008 to present) saw some events which hadn't been very common since solar cycle 20 (October 1964 to March 1976) which appears to have been
stronger than SC24, but (SC20) is otherwise the 2nd weakest solar cycle experienced since World War 2. Of course, the media just note that such weather events are "more extreme" than past weather events through the 80's, 90's and 00's, so it must be AGW causing more extreme weather.