If the 11 year sunspot cycles which seem to have an 88 year extreme cycle are operational, then you should check out your local conditions from 88 years ago, plus or minus 5 years. This, of course, gives us the time of the great Dust Bowl era. Saw some seriously dust bowl like TV film on Phoenix AZ a while ago. Check your local news archives and tell us what you find.
New fires breaking out in the austin area
other older fires now spreading again
By all accounts we are at a low in sunspot activity. In fact so low that articles are about “where did all the sunspots go?” The solar maximum is expected in 2013. If that means it gets hotter we are in for some really tough times. It is hard to directly correlate the drought.
In spite of a huge amount of information nobody that I can find has simple graphs that tie rain, temperature and sunspots... none I have found so far that are simple direct comparisons.