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 17.63%
1911 18.90%
1912 23.17%
1913 18.78%
1914 17.45%
1915 37.52%
1916 28.97%
1917 19.12%
1918 19.15%
1919 19.67%
1920 14.63%
1921 18.70%
1922 10.78%
1923 14.13%
1924 19.03%
1925 15.43%
1926 17.28%
1927 22.03%
1928 22.15%
1929 14.27%
1930 15.98%
1931 21.72%
1932 16.68%
1933 23.32%
1934 32.18%
1935 8.60%
1936 37.55%
1937 14.72%
1938 10.65%
1939 12.55%
1940 19.52%
1941 17.85%
1942 16.97%
1943 20.13%
1944 17.65%
1945 19.57%
1946 12.05%
1947 13.90%
1948 10.15%
1949 18.82%
1950 23.12%
1951 19.30%
1952 17.77%
1953 21.27%
1954 27.90%
1955 19.77%
1956 14.40%
1957 17.10%
1958 16.00%
1959 13.82%
1960 12.60%
1961 21.32%
1962 7.87%
1963 12.53%
1964 16.23%
1965 16.43%
1966 13.23%
1967 20.78%
1968 12.12%
1969 15.53%
1970 16.25%
1971 7.35%
1972 15.73%
1973 13.58%
1974 13.45%
1975 12.55%
1976 23.28%
1977 10.37%
1978 11.57%
1979 15.47%
1980 25.27%
1981 15.08%
1982 11.47%
1983 26.70%
1984 14.22%
1985 17.50%
1986 13.43%
1987 10.95%
1988 24.98%
1989 18.12%
1990 9.83%
1991 20.60%
1992 41.70%
1993 31.83%
1994 17.98%
1995 23.77%
1996 18.28%
1997 16.58%
1998 23.12%
1999 17.38%
2000 16.38%
2001 16.38%
2002 24.07%
2003 26.18%
2004 33.73%
2005 34.68%
2006 25.45%
2007 29.93%
2008 23.00%
2009 20.45%
2010 25.32%
2011 38.18%
2012 29.67%

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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.