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 17.50%
1911 9.34%
1912 15.90%
1913 28.56%
1914 31.90%
1915 48.84%
1916 10.58%
1917 21.28%
1918 14.54%
1919 10.36%
1920 22.30%
1921 22.38%
1922 10.88%
1923 4.96%
1924 18.66%
1925 13.10%
1926 4.90%
1927 51.28%
1928 23.96%
1929 22.88%
1930 37.82%
1931 24.86%
1932 11.72%
1933 27.22%
1934 58.86%
1935 13.54%
1936 64.34%
1937 9.88%
1938 8.38%
1939 5.26%
1940 8.60%
1941 19.24%
1942 12.30%
1943 26.62%
1944 16.42%
1945 18.80%
1946 17.50%
1947 6.22%
1948 4.10%
1949 20.50%
1950 46.34%
1951 18.14%
1952 18.78%
1953 33.10%
1954 36.06%
1955 9.98%
1956 9.28%
1957 12.58%
1958 32.90%
1959 5.94%
1960 4.82%
1961 14.54%
1962 5.26%
1963 16.42%
1964 16.04%
1965 11.48%
1966 10.24%
1967 29.88%
1968 6.28%
1969 8.12%
1970 6.96%
1971 1.94%
1972 18.28%
1973 23.28%
1974 17.00%
1975 7.74%
1976 20.18%
1977 8.08%
1978 2.64%
1979 22.48%
1980 25.62%
1981 18.64%
1982 20.38%
1983 28.20%
1984 10.08%
1985 22.78%
1986 5.84%
1987 17.12%
1988 42.60%
1989 16.96%
1990 13.54%
1991 21.54%
1992 40.90%
1993 28.02%
1994 9.74%
1995 20.34%
1996 11.40%
1997 18.32%
1998 22.28%
1999 15.82%
2000 11.60%
2001 5.42%
2002 28.70%
2003 17.94%
2004 41.90%
2005 26.12%
2006 13.70%
2007 23.46%
2008 20.70%
2009 28.84%
2010 36.98%
2011 30.26%
2012 33.84%

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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.