Table 3.

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

Variable	Lag
	0	1	2	3	4
Rainfall	0.098	−0.118	0.058	0.008	−0.041
P value	0.4549	0.3723	0.6643	0.9507	0.7634
T mean	−0.145	−0.004	0.111	0.281∗	0.401∗∗
P value	0.2701	0.9741	0.4078	0.0340	0.0022
RHmax	−0.035	−0.326∗	−0.017	−0.026	0.140
P value	0.7918	0.0118	0.8963	0.8453	0.3049
RHmin	0.139	0.066	0.147	0.052	−0.120
P value	0.2888	0.6183	0.2696	0.6995	0.3775
RHmean	0.082	−0.080	0.098	0.032	−0.055
P value	0.5335	0.5451	0.4628	0.8106	0.6899

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