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THE question of sunspots and air-temperature was recently considered in these columns with the aid of a method in which each month since 1841 (at Greenwich) was first characterised as + or -, according as the temperature was above or below the normal; a year with more than the average number of plus months being considered warm, and with less, cold.
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MACDOWALL, A. Sunspots and Rainfall. Nature 59, 583–584 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/059583a0
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