Table 2 Spearman correlation coefficients between weekly malaria cases and weather variables in the high risk area of Yunnan, China, 2005– 2010

Mean temperature

0.87*

Minimum temperature

0.72*

0.96*

Relative humidity

0.07*

0.48*

0.67*

Rain (weekly cumulation)

0.40*

0.70*

0.80*

0.73*

P. v

0.37*

0.46*

0.45*

0.35*

0.33*

P. f

0.32*

0.40*

0.39*

0.30*

0.30*

0.89*