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 17.26%
1911 13.36%
1912 33.98%
1913 16.90%
1914 13.62%
1915 36.22%
1916 11.46%
1917 22.96%
1918 17.26%
1919 7.90%
1920 11.46%
1921 17.44%
1922 24.80%
1923 29.58%
1924 30.82%
1925 18.46%
1926 26.72%
1927 46.60%
1928 23.62%
1929 28.98%
1930 15.80%
1931 12.00%
1932 11.92%
1933 20.82%
1934 22.28%
1935 6.60%
1936 19.70%
1937 16.86%
1938 16.44%
1939 5.72%
1940 3.92%
1941 19.06%
1942 8.76%
1943 14.70%
1944 21.32%
1945 12.84%
1946 24.68%
1947 9.54%
1948 4.98%
1949 61.70%
1950 17.12%
1951 7.48%
1952 23.50%
1953 27.24%
1954 21.22%
1955 42.18%
1956 16.02%
1957 21.32%
1958 23.44%
1959 16.76%
1960 8.66%
1961 3.94%
1962 14.72%
1963 15.02%
1964 18.46%
1965 33.64%
1966 29.94%
1967 3.92%
1968 2.66%
1969 3.16%
1970 5.12%
1971 10.32%
1972 35.66%
1973 38.72%
1974 9.72%
1975 16.88%
1976 12.74%
1977 8.48%
1978 8.40%
1979 11.66%
1980 9.32%
1981 5.76%
1982 24.26%
1983 16.36%
1984 9.02%
1985 13.44%
1986 19.62%
1987 8.86%
1988 20.18%
1989 15.24%
1990 9.22%
1991 23.68%
1992 30.68%
1993 3.48%
1994 22.54%
1995 36.72%
1996 15.10%
1997 6.72%
1998 12.74%
1999 28.80%
2000 25.20%
2001 13.00%
2002 29.82%
2003 25.24%
2004 30.24%
2005 50.82%
2006 42.30%
2007 10.90%
2008 32.18%
2009 36.98%
2010 38.86%
2011 48.44%
2012 35.12%

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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.