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 21.22%
1911 17.88%
1912 19.50%
1913 10.02%
1914 27.34%
1915 13.76%
1916 21.28%
1917 11.18%
1918 18.98%
1919 13.04%
1920 18.14%
1921 10.96%
1922 14.48%
1923 11.40%
1924 8.08%
1925 41.30%
1926 18.60%
1927 30.38%
1928 20.00%
1929 22.76%
1930 37.30%
1931 14.44%
1932 19.36%
1933 7.88%
1934 24.10%
1935 3.86%
1936 18.84%
1937 6.46%
1938 6.90%
1939 16.00%
1940 11.54%
1941 12.72%
1942 10.90%
1943 28.94%
1944 7.84%
1945 9.90%
1946 22.84%
1947 14.96%
1948 9.02%
1949 22.76%
1950 15.42%
1951 10.12%
1952 30.88%
1953 13.24%
1954 43.64%
1955 16.30%
1956 9.86%
1957 12.72%
1958 8.22%
1959 15.10%
1960 9.04%
1961 37.00%
1962 11.94%
1963 14.48%
1964 20.44%
1965 25.06%
1966 27.22%
1967 44.30%
1968 7.98%
1969 6.96%
1970 9.16%
1971 9.98%
1972 34.14%
1973 16.38%
1974 33.60%
1975 17.22%
1976 28.22%
1977 12.64%
1978 9.48%
1979 22.82%
1980 31.96%
1981 21.58%
1982 11.50%
1983 24.90%
1984 14.38%
1985 11.18%
1986 28.56%
1987 18.20%
1988 20.02%
1989 32.48%
1990 16.92%
1991 21.90%
1992 20.64%
1993 23.74%
1994 27.80%
1995 18.94%
1996 8.64%
1997 21.54%
1998 30.70%
1999 20.90%
2000 22.20%
2001 7.48%
2002 23.00%
2003 42.60%
2004 22.44%
2005 39.38%
2006 23.02%
2007 30.54%
2008 19.86%
2009 10.58%
2010 41.94%
2011 54.76%
2012 15.64%

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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.