The pattern of correlation between the 11-year solar cycle and heights and temperatures in the lower stratosphere is in all months shaped as a crescent with its axis in the subtropics. The change of total ozone from the solar maximum in 1979--1980 to the minimum in 1985--1986 has the same shape. Although the effect of the solar cycle is said to have been removed from the ozone data, two thirds of the stations which have been used for this purpose lie outside the regions where the stratosphere is significantly correlated with the solar cycle. For this reason it is unlikely that the influence of the cycle has been completely eliminated. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1992