Table 2.

Central region: cross-correlations between the prewhitened climate and case time-series during 2009–2013.

Variable	Lag
	0	1	2	3	4
Rainfall	0.346∗∗	0.391∗∗	0.344∗∗	0.363∗∗	0.286∗
P value	0.0068	0.0022	0.0082	0.0055	0.0325
T mean	0.007	0.042	0.219	0.440∗∗∗	0.504∗∗∗
P value	0.9578	0.7508	0.0980	0.0006	<0.0001
RHmax	0.411∗∗∗	0.427∗∗∗	0.247	0.141	0.130
P value	0.0011	0.0008	0.0611	0.2940	0.3382
RHmin	0.498∗∗∗	0.533∗∗∗	0.342∗∗	0.191	0.048
P value	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0086	0.1543	0.7269
RHmean	0.460∗∗∗	0.474∗∗∗	0.283∗	0.162	0.081
P value	0.0002	0.0001	0.0314	0.2294	0.5551

^∗ P < 0.05,  ^∗∗ P < 0.01, and ^∗∗∗ P < 0.001.