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 (December-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 23.12%
1911 24.35%
1912 31.27%
1913 18.27%
1914 16.90%
1915 26.22%
1916 34.40%
1917 29.22%
1918 11.45%
1919 21.18%
1920 17.40%
1921 26.97%
1922 15.82%
1923 17.05%
1924 27.95%
1925 13.27%
1926 24.05%
1927 16.83%
1928 15.25%
1929 24.70%
1930 11.58%
1931 24.45%
1932 18.53%
1933 29.53%
1934 35.58%
1935 16.12%
1936 18.93%
1937 12.77%
1938 18.02%
1939 17.28%
1940 22.22%
1941 31.13%
1942 13.00%
1943 10.68%
1944 15.38%
1945 15.08%
1946 13.53%
1947 16.58%
1948 19.45%
1949 19.30%
1950 28.83%
1951 20.08%
1952 11.97%
1953 22.88%
1954 31.43%
1955 22.13%
1956 16.98%
1957 17.77%
1958 19.17%
1959 15.70%
1960 19.17%
1961 15.83%
1962 6.83%
1963 14.73%
1964 25.48%
1965 18.38%
1966 16.12%
1967 10.78%
1968 14.15%
1969 15.93%
1970 10.50%
1971 12.30%
1972 13.73%
1973 17.38%
1974 10.92%
1975 16.42%
1976 20.27%
1977 8.90%
1978 17.10%
1979 27.07%
1980 10.77%
1981 18.33%
1982 16.58%
1983 26.17%
1984 14.52%
1985 28.97%
1986 17.68%
1987 18.83%
1988 16.08%
1989 21.80%
1990 20.63%
1991 19.65%
1992 24.98%
1993 22.43%
1994 13.63%
1995 20.70%
1996 31.08%
1997 17.38%
1998 42.53%
1999 28.98%
2000 14.97%
2001 20.13%
2002 23.32%
2003 25.27%
2004 29.98%
2005 35.67%
2006 29.37%
2007 28.15%
2008 26.17%
2009 14.53%
2010 20.50%
2011 26.55%
2012 42.43%

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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.