Table 5. Comparison of climate conditions during months with and without Nocardia infections, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, June 2015–March 2021.

Climate conditions	Monthly average with no Nocardia cases, n = 73	Monthly average with confirmed Nocardia cases, n = 17	p value	All months, n = 90
Precipitation, mm/mo	66.3	63.3	0.42	65.7
Dryness	0.4	0.3	<0.01	0.4
Temperature, °C	17.4	18.9	0.24	17.7
Windspeed, m/s	1.0	1.1	0.37	1.0
Normalized windspeed, m/s	0.2	0.4	<0.01	0.2
Normalized erodibility, m/s	0.1	0.4	<0.01	0.2