Sun is starting next solar cycle–despite being halfway through its current one (phys.org)

Just from the title it sounded like this was unusual. From reading the article it is not. It doesn't mean the next cycle is starting sooner than expected

So it looks more of a solar pipeline than cycle.

A cycle within a cycle

It's the Sun, it can do whatever it wants. Try stopping it, if you dare.

a bi-cycle?

The link between the title, the contents of the article, and the concept of a cycle as usually understood couldn't be more tenuous.

So... in a nutshell, we've observed for a while that there is a 11-year cycle. We're five years into one of those. We've just detected the same kind of activity which was detected 11 years ago, which makes us believe that 6 years from now, the cycle will repeat.

In other words, the sun isn't "starting the next solar cycle" I guess?

The title of this article is like saying, it's the middle of the night here in New York, but we're hearing that there's daylight in Dubai right now so, let's title our article "Sunrise is happening already - despite it being 2AM in NYC"

Global warming!