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Rainfall and Sun-Spots in India

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As Prof. Balfour Stewart says the true test of a physical cycle is its repetition, and since he evidently regards the tendency to repetition which he has shown to exist in the rainfall of Madras as a favourable indication of the presence of a physical cycle such as that claimed by Dr. Hunter, I may perhaps be allowed to supplement my former statements regarding the tendency of the winter rainfall in many stations of Upper India to vary in a cycle corresponding inversely with the solar spots, by exhibiting a similar tendency to repetition in the rainfall of Calcutta. The following table represents the winter rainfall of Calcutta from 1833 to 1876.

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ARCHIBALD, E. Rainfall and Sun-Spots in India. Nature 16, 438–439 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016438b0

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