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 21.38%
1911 23.14%
1912 26.00%
1913 16.18%
1914 19.06%
1915 27.32%
1916 19.76%
1917 29.14%
1918 16.82%
1919 19.58%
1920 24.92%
1921 20.78%
1922 10.58%
1923 16.90%
1924 31.96%
1925 22.30%
1926 18.40%
1927 22.04%
1928 25.40%
1929 14.12%
1930 15.94%
1931 23.54%
1932 11.00%
1933 17.58%
1934 37.96%
1935 12.72%
1936 33.62%
1937 15.10%
1938 11.70%
1939 15.12%
1940 20.76%
1941 35.28%
1942 14.84%
1943 11.12%
1944 12.68%
1945 21.94%
1946 9.10%
1947 9.02%
1948 16.48%
1949 12.28%
1950 28.64%
1951 24.00%
1952 12.24%
1953 18.48%
1954 28.94%
1955 22.66%
1956 22.44%
1957 14.58%
1958 15.42%
1959 13.64%
1960 10.96%
1961 20.96%
1962 6.10%
1963 20.42%
1964 16.18%
1965 24.10%
1966 14.20%
1967 21.04%
1968 13.96%
1969 8.56%
1970 7.80%
1971 9.62%
1972 9.26%
1973 20.40%
1974 14.60%
1975 21.90%
1976 20.42%
1977 19.68%
1978 13.86%
1979 16.92%
1980 17.46%
1981 13.16%
1982 13.18%
1983 21.34%
1984 16.74%
1985 10.16%
1986 15.76%
1987 20.32%
1988 24.62%
1989 18.92%
1990 15.92%
1991 23.76%
1992 31.24%
1993 26.10%
1994 17.58%
1995 18.56%
1996 19.04%
1997 24.70%
1998 33.74%
1999 17.84%
2000 21.58%
2001 23.20%
2002 25.72%
2003 23.32%
2004 18.26%
2005 20.90%
2006 27.96%
2007 32.10%
2008 17.56%
2009 20.26%
2010 35.62%
2011 38.44%
2012 39.60%

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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.