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 21.32%
1911 24.86%
1912 21.98%
1913 11.24%
1914 19.26%
1915 19.98%
1916 23.14%
1917 29.50%
1918 10.78%
1919 27.92%
1920 13.48%
1921 19.30%
1922 15.54%
1923 17.26%
1924 18.12%
1925 20.46%
1926 15.50%
1927 24.88%
1928 9.26%
1929 25.96%
1930 15.60%
1931 36.38%
1932 21.46%
1933 26.94%
1934 18.12%
1935 11.92%
1936 20.08%
1937 20.88%
1938 18.52%
1939 22.14%
1940 12.54%
1941 30.06%
1942 10.24%
1943 19.30%
1944 8.66%
1945 10.38%
1946 20.04%
1947 14.44%
1948 13.56%
1949 8.22%
1950 18.84%
1951 19.94%
1952 29.62%
1953 34.68%
1954 23.84%
1955 15.62%
1956 21.18%
1957 20.92%
1958 11.40%
1959 21.86%
1960 7.68%
1961 21.48%
1962 11.88%
1963 38.48%
1964 13.08%
1965 11.66%
1966 7.90%
1967 18.70%
1968 7.92%
1969 6.10%
1970 12.04%
1971 18.50%
1972 24.64%
1973 24.84%
1974 16.86%
1975 10.30%
1976 33.46%
1977 15.32%
1978 11.50%
1979 15.60%
1980 10.20%
1981 12.80%
1982 15.34%
1983 19.38%
1984 16.66%
1985 38.42%
1986 24.24%
1987 15.94%
1988 14.26%
1989 13.98%
1990 18.58%
1991 17.46%
1992 13.14%
1993 24.32%
1994 14.50%
1995 23.22%
1996 23.72%
1997 12.78%
1998 33.90%
1999 27.62%
2000 10.74%
2001 24.78%
2002 18.68%
2003 17.12%
2004 27.80%
2005 25.82%
2006 12.06%
2007 24.52%
2008 17.90%
2009 19.82%
2010 18.38%
2011 22.78%
2012 23.16%

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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.