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 12.84%
1911 8.80%
1912 15.60%
1913 18.38%
1914 18.70%
1915 15.88%
1916 12.52%
1917 23.28%
1918 27.24%
1919 3.18%
1920 15.36%
1921 39.82%
1922 19.64%
1923 23.34%
1924 34.46%
1925 20.02%
1926 35.72%
1927 36.14%
1928 16.64%
1929 19.30%
1930 7.12%
1931 35.10%
1932 17.24%
1933 12.10%
1934 28.40%
1935 14.66%
1936 17.56%
1937 4.90%
1938 24.08%
1939 14.86%
1940 32.32%
1941 29.40%
1942 14.94%
1943 21.06%
1944 12.92%
1945 23.38%
1946 31.74%
1947 40.40%
1948 5.66%
1949 3.02%
1950 27.82%
1951 13.16%
1952 7.76%
1953 10.46%
1954 21.30%
1955 20.20%
1956 19.22%
1957 6.04%
1958 12.66%
1959 3.58%
1960 43.98%
1961 19.30%
1962 4.38%
1963 13.30%
1964 23.92%
1965 4.16%
1966 9.58%
1967 7.82%
1968 5.60%
1969 15.76%
1970 10.32%
1971 26.42%
1972 3.42%
1973 36.94%
1974 21.80%
1975 15.76%
1976 7.66%
1977 49.84%
1978 11.60%
1979 11.80%
1980 8.48%
1981 5.82%
1982 3.46%
1983 34.74%
1984 40.70%
1985 35.02%
1986 22.10%
1987 24.88%
1988 21.32%
1989 10.26%
1990 15.18%
1991 41.98%
1992 9.74%
1993 20.28%
1994 25.16%
1995 14.44%
1996 32.18%
1997 22.52%
1998 23.48%
1999 6.86%
2000 22.62%
2001 6.50%
2002 21.74%
2003 9.50%
2004 40.32%
2005 10.12%
2006 14.48%
2007 37.42%
2008 27.10%
2009 19.74%
2010 40.00%
2011 29.54%
2012 49.14%

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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.