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THE existence of a correlation between solar activity and meteorological or climatological parameters seems no longer in doubt and a credible explanation has recently been suggested1. It has also been shown that the mean monthly or yearly number of sunspots gives a crude but effective index of the solar activity and that the most marked variation is cyclic with a period of approximately 11 yr.
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STRINGFELLOW, M. Lightning incidence in Britain and the solar cycle. Nature 249, 332–333 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249332a0
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