Speaking from family history we have been farming in this region for more than a hundred years and the drought before world war 1 was terrible, just as bad if not worse than this current one. It was humbling to read letters from my grandfather about it.
This discovery has important implications for future drought predictions in Australia and in countries in the northern and southern hemispheres which have been shown to be influenced by the sunspot cycle. Further, it provides a benchmark for long-term SOI behaviour.
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