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 19.44%
1911 16.66%
1912 19.72%
1913 10.96%
1914 17.96%
1915 22.86%
1916 14.62%
1917 13.08%
1918 20.10%
1919 7.14%
1920 19.92%
1921 26.84%
1922 22.00%
1923 15.14%
1924 28.24%
1925 21.26%
1926 41.98%
1927 25.60%
1928 19.20%
1929 37.54%
1930 8.08%
1931 42.58%
1932 17.44%
1933 7.34%
1934 11.94%
1935 23.60%
1936 17.80%
1937 6.50%
1938 27.40%
1939 3.20%
1940 20.38%
1941 26.76%
1942 18.88%
1943 6.52%
1944 13.98%
1945 43.88%
1946 18.28%
1947 15.20%
1948 30.96%
1949 6.46%
1950 7.16%
1951 8.02%
1952 6.32%
1953 10.10%
1954 3.76%
1955 39.36%
1956 10.32%
1957 9.66%
1958 35.56%
1959 11.34%
1960 51.10%
1961 18.90%
1962 7.44%
1963 13.16%
1964 23.08%
1965 10.56%
1966 13.26%
1967 21.96%
1968 2.44%
1969 26.56%
1970 6.74%
1971 37.06%
1972 6.80%
1973 28.78%
1974 10.54%
1975 23.52%
1976 14.66%
1977 29.18%
1978 11.70%
1979 16.10%
1980 26.24%
1981 17.32%
1982 4.58%
1983 41.30%
1984 35.90%
1985 20.86%
1986 26.90%
1987 10.12%
1988 12.70%
1989 9.78%
1990 14.38%
1991 42.12%
1992 13.44%
1993 28.56%
1994 12.50%
1995 16.22%
1996 18.54%
1997 10.24%
1998 29.00%
1999 9.70%
2000 18.96%
2001 13.24%
2002 20.02%
2003 36.88%
2004 23.94%
2005 25.94%
2006 13.72%
2007 41.28%
2008 11.42%
2009 16.18%
2010 18.58%
2011 27.30%
2012 53.48%

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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.