http://www.mtu.edu/alumni/favorites/snowfall/snowfall.html sunspots: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch/spot_num.txt http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/greenwch/SN_m_tot_V2.0.txt http://www.sidc.be/silso/datafiles http://www.sidc.be/silso/DATA/SN_d_tot_V2.0.txt Mean temp/precip/etc: http://w2.weather.gov/climate/xmacis.php?wfo=mqt Note 1890 temp values were missing; replaced with mean for month 10 years after. Ice cover data (from 1973 on) https://coastwatch.glerl.noaa.gov/statistic/statistic.html https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/#historical https://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/dates_AMIC.txt El Nino Activity: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/current/soihtm1.shtml