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 20.58%
1911 27.52%
1912 30.18%
1913 20.88%
1914 20.48%
1915 20.84%
1916 23.74%
1917 34.64%
1918 15.00%
1919 8.32%
1920 22.84%
1921 25.74%
1922 23.46%
1923 12.70%
1924 27.22%
1925 22.22%
1926 22.56%
1927 21.80%
1928 11.38%
1929 29.48%
1930 7.46%
1931 23.88%
1932 12.64%
1933 19.82%
1934 38.72%
1935 14.08%
1936 21.24%
1937 26.12%
1938 20.50%
1939 8.66%
1940 31.52%
1941 22.14%
1942 17.66%
1943 14.90%
1944 11.24%
1945 10.58%
1946 17.84%
1947 14.70%
1948 13.96%
1949 22.44%
1950 24.02%
1951 12.16%
1952 11.08%
1953 14.92%
1954 20.70%
1955 23.42%
1956 12.92%
1957 17.34%
1958 24.88%
1959 10.20%
1960 18.56%
1961 11.00%
1962 6.50%
1963 10.80%
1964 20.26%
1965 12.00%
1966 15.24%
1967 9.44%
1968 12.28%
1969 11.54%
1970 10.74%
1971 14.86%
1972 15.82%
1973 24.26%
1974 19.42%
1975 18.06%
1976 11.44%
1977 15.54%
1978 32.10%
1979 34.24%
1980 15.20%
1981 21.62%
1982 12.92%
1983 27.72%
1984 18.10%
1985 14.44%
1986 26.38%
1987 25.76%
1988 15.04%
1989 12.06%
1990 26.66%
1991 22.98%
1992 31.18%
1993 22.46%
1994 16.44%
1995 15.86%
1996 28.30%
1997 18.86%
1998 30.68%
1999 22.74%
2000 39.16%
2001 13.54%
2002 20.38%
2003 18.16%
2004 18.38%
2005 19.02%
2006 36.50%
2007 21.60%
2008 16.96%
2009 16.06%
2010 20.38%
2011 25.70%
2012 43.80%
2013 20.32%

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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.