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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Download: Warm Data | Cold Data
Year Warm Cold
1910 22.60% 0.00%
1911 26.90% 2.90%
1912 0.00% 52.40%
1913 0.90% 21.10%
1914 0.90% 10.80%
1915 0.00% 37.60%
1916 5.90% 0.00%
1917 3.00% 7.40%
1918 0.00% 4.80%
1919 0.00% 51.00%
1920 0.00% 32.20%
1921 66.00% 0.00%
1922 3.80% 0.90%
1923 0.00% 21.60%
1924 0.00% 14.50%
1925 24.00% 0.00%
1926 0.00% 10.60%
1927 25.20% 0.00%
1928 0.00% 1.00%
1929 0.00% 39.70%
1930 0.00% 3.00%
1931 6.30% 2.80%
1932 0.00% 10.60%
1933 66.90% 0.00%
1934 71.90% 0.00%
1935 0.00% 1.90%
1936 9.10% 1.00%
1937 0.00% 5.60%
1938 47.40% 0.00%
1939 54.80% 0.00%
1940 0.00% 32.60%
1941 0.00% 20.00%
1942 0.00% 0.90%
1943 7.50% 0.00%
1944 0.00% 2.80%
1945 2.00% 0.90%
1946 22.70% 0.00%
1947 0.00% 0.00%
1948 2.00% 0.00%
1949 1.00% 2.80%
1950 9.70% 1.80%
1951 6.80% 14.30%
1952 6.60% 0.00%
1953 33.70% 0.00%
1954 92.10% 0.00%
1955 0.00% 0.00%
1956 61.10% 0.00%
1957 0.00% 19.80%
1958 0.00% 50.70%
1959 0.00% 4.90%
1960 0.00% 36.60%
1961 0.00% 29.40%
1962 0.00% 0.00%
1963 17.50% 0.00%
1964 0.90% 0.00%
1965 0.00% 1.00%
1966 0.00% 19.40%
1967 0.00% 0.00%
1968 0.00% 53.90%
1969 0.00% 13.50%
1970 0.00% 3.00%
1971 0.00% 0.00%
1972 0.00% 0.00%
1973 0.00% 5.70%
1974 0.00% 0.00%
1975 0.00% 0.90%
1976 0.00% 21.50%
1977 4.80% 0.00%
1978 0.00% 19.00%
1979 0.00% 70.10%
1980 0.00% 0.00%
1981 1.80% 1.00%
1982 0.00% 4.50%
1983 0.00% 64.10%
1984 0.00% 0.90%
1985 0.00% 18.20%
1986 5.40% 0.00%
1987 0.90% 5.80%
1988 0.00% 0.00%
1989 1.00% 30.50%
1990 8.70% 0.00%
1991 0.00% 1.90%
1992 0.00% 6.80%
1993 0.00% 55.70%
1994 3.80% 1.00%
1995 1.00% 0.00%
1996 3.90% 4.60%
1997 0.00% 24.70%
1998 28.80% 0.00%
1999 56.30% 0.00%
2000 16.10% 0.00%
2001 2.90% 0.00%
2002 1.80% 0.00%
2003 7.60% 0.00%
2004 0.00% 0.00%
2005 9.50% 0.00%
2006 77.20% 0.00%
2007 2.80% 3.90%
2008 9.90% 7.20%
2009 4.90% 6.60%
2010 0.00% 2.00%
2011 55.50% 0.00%
2012 94.20% 0.00%

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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.