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 24.74%
1911 24.96%
1912 30.68%
1913 23.00%
1914 17.70%
1915 21.06%
1916 22.54%
1917 29.34%
1918 16.72%
1919 10.52%
1920 20.18%
1921 27.04%
1922 23.16%
1923 12.28%
1924 19.96%
1925 22.56%
1926 20.70%
1927 18.14%
1928 11.48%
1929 25.46%
1930 6.98%
1931 22.68%
1932 13.56%
1933 15.62%
1934 31.52%
1935 16.68%
1936 26.86%
1937 32.72%
1938 21.70%
1939 9.10%
1940 30.06%
1941 22.12%
1942 17.60%
1943 15.58%
1944 10.74%
1945 13.34%
1946 21.44%
1947 11.98%
1948 13.96%
1949 25.12%
1950 23.38%
1951 14.82%
1952 13.96%
1953 13.30%
1954 26.22%
1955 20.44%
1956 13.12%
1957 15.64%
1958 25.40%
1959 10.70%
1960 16.52%
1961 11.38%
1962 6.72%
1963 9.62%
1964 20.90%
1965 12.74%
1966 12.40%
1967 13.20%
1968 12.68%
1969 13.04%
1970 11.96%
1971 13.22%
1972 15.80%
1973 25.94%
1974 16.10%
1975 16.20%
1976 16.20%
1977 18.14%
1978 34.04%
1979 34.86%
1980 14.50%
1981 25.42%
1982 15.64%
1983 29.00%
1984 18.40%
1985 14.04%
1986 27.54%
1987 20.82%
1988 13.78%
1989 11.54%
1990 31.40%
1991 17.44%
1992 30.10%
1993 21.74%
1994 15.80%
1995 13.74%
1996 25.00%
1997 16.18%
1998 29.12%
1999 23.14%
2000 30.84%
2001 10.86%
2002 20.18%
2003 17.64%
2004 16.62%
2005 20.86%
2006 37.18%
2007 17.16%
2008 15.32%
2009 17.52%
2010 22.26%
2011 19.62%
2012 43.02%
2013 18.50%

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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.