U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI)

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Choose a period/season and an indicator from the options below and click "Plot" to create a time series graph. Note that the sixth indicator (Step 6) is not calculated for the spring (March-May), winter (Decemeber-February) and cold (October-March) seasons since most months during these periods are outside of the traditional hurricane season.



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Year Percent
1910 14.60%
1911 37.50%
1912 52.30%
1913 19.20%
1914 10.00%
1915 9.20%
1916 47.20%
1917 71.20%
1918 8.10%
1919 18.00%
1920 12.90%
1921 44.10%
1922 26.20%
1923 11.50%
1924 62.00%
1925 11.40%
1926 18.40%
1927 19.60%
1928 3.80%
1929 40.30%
1930 9.90%
1931 35.50%
1932 15.00%
1933 23.30%
1934 40.10%
1935 7.70%
1936 12.20%
1937 5.40%
1938 16.20%
1939 3.70%
1940 45.00%
1941 29.00%
1942 5.50%
1943 7.00%
1944 10.20%
1945 3.70%
1946 13.60%
1947 3.70%
1948 16.10%
1949 34.40%
1950 29.20%
1951 25.80%
1952 5.90%
1953 11.90%
1954 12.90%
1955 19.40%
1956 4.90%
1957 6.70%
1958 27.50%
1959 2.20%
1960 11.90%
1961 7.70%
1962 3.80%
1963 26.80%
1964 14.40%
1965 2.10%
1966 18.30%
1967 8.90%
1968 18.30%
1969 8.10%
1970 4.20%
1971 5.10%
1972 4.20%
1973 23.60%
1974 2.00%
1975 13.10%
1976 42.40%
1977 2.70%
1978 30.20%
1979 32.50%
1980 2.00%
1981 37.20%
1982 3.80%
1983 19.40%
1984 4.00%
1985 18.40%
1986 37.30%
1987 26.90%
1988 12.40%
1989 14.20%
1990 24.00%
1991 27.20%
1992 15.60%
1993 6.90%
1994 10.10%
1995 15.10%
1996 23.70%
1997 12.70%
1998 75.80%
1999 30.40%
2000 20.30%
2001 33.40%
2002 18.80%
2003 31.90%
2004 29.30%
2005 36.30%
2006 48.70%
2007 28.30%
2008 4.60%
2009 4.00%
2010 23.10%
2011 17.80%
2012 79.70%

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Limitations: Statistics for the most recent period/season are computed from a fraction of the U.S. which has data available at that time. Extreme percentage values can and will likely change as final quality controlled data become available and fill in the data gaps.