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 22.26%
1911 18.04%
1912 16.96%
1913 14.50%
1914 16.64%
1915 36.94%
1916 16.12%
1917 27.40%
1918 28.56%
1919 7.10%
1920 20.70%
1921 17.74%
1922 9.92%
1923 15.28%
1924 36.42%
1925 42.28%
1926 27.32%
1927 24.26%
1928 6.90%
1929 15.66%
1930 4.74%
1931 41.14%
1932 6.72%
1933 12.18%
1934 15.72%
1935 17.08%
1936 21.40%
1937 6.30%
1938 22.26%
1939 9.28%
1940 11.60%
1941 28.12%
1942 16.98%
1943 8.54%
1944 13.26%
1945 13.40%
1946 23.08%
1947 28.18%
1948 7.70%
1949 6.64%
1950 11.32%
1951 16.62%
1952 19.00%
1953 16.84%
1954 15.88%
1955 36.44%
1956 25.32%
1957 30.36%
1958 32.68%
1959 4.92%
1960 25.72%
1961 10.66%
1962 8.62%
1963 36.90%
1964 10.50%
1965 7.86%
1966 10.90%
1967 31.48%
1968 14.32%
1969 17.90%
1970 8.20%
1971 24.30%
1972 16.92%
1973 29.52%
1974 40.52%
1975 19.98%
1976 6.62%
1977 22.58%
1978 9.46%
1979 14.62%
1980 23.36%
1981 12.14%
1982 6.70%
1983 38.44%
1984 16.54%
1985 20.34%
1986 19.60%
1987 29.18%
1988 11.34%
1989 11.88%
1990 15.28%
1991 31.14%
1992 14.70%
1993 35.36%
1994 8.52%
1995 20.36%
1996 17.60%
1997 19.78%
1998 11.04%
1999 9.96%
2000 25.18%
2001 11.22%
2002 18.04%
2003 12.00%
2004 23.80%
2005 10.62%
2006 42.58%
2007 30.48%
2008 13.84%
2009 15.26%
2010 12.78%
2011 40.86%
2012 51.90%

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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.