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 41.02%
1911 31.76%
1912 21.60%
1913 9.34%
1914 27.46%
1915 19.48%
1916 18.06%
1917 40.96%
1918 24.40%
1919 6.88%
1920 27.34%
1921 9.18%
1922 33.22%
1923 12.62%
1924 32.74%
1925 18.86%
1926 39.84%
1927 14.34%
1928 8.54%
1929 9.06%
1930 18.96%
1931 24.66%
1932 9.72%
1933 14.80%
1934 62.76%
1935 25.28%
1936 10.52%
1937 10.98%
1938 5.08%
1939 31.32%
1940 35.14%
1941 20.90%
1942 7.76%
1943 19.14%
1944 8.74%
1945 14.76%
1946 3.76%
1947 29.18%
1948 40.72%
1949 9.78%
1950 22.92%
1951 27.12%
1952 7.18%
1953 11.90%
1954 21.82%
1955 47.40%
1956 18.38%
1957 24.00%
1958 10.52%
1959 7.00%
1960 11.80%
1961 14.40%
1962 6.46%
1963 8.88%
1964 26.74%
1965 23.32%
1966 16.98%
1967 17.66%
1968 12.72%
1969 11.32%
1970 7.38%
1971 19.46%
1972 18.80%
1973 10.04%
1974 23.88%
1975 29.74%
1976 8.70%
1977 17.16%
1978 8.50%
1979 2.66%
1980 8.96%
1981 4.38%
1982 25.92%
1983 26.10%
1984 26.96%
1985 1.36%
1986 7.54%
1987 40.38%
1988 20.46%
1989 13.12%
1990 12.84%
1991 30.08%
1992 61.92%
1993 30.08%
1994 27.78%
1995 11.94%
1996 23.24%
1997 28.34%
1998 19.04%
1999 15.14%
2000 8.12%
2001 13.82%
2002 11.44%
2003 25.96%
2004 29.76%
2005 33.28%
2006 11.80%
2007 15.76%
2008 13.98%
2009 10.16%
2010 11.36%
2011 52.52%
2012 21.70%

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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.