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 23.78%
1911 18.90%
1912 34.26%
1913 24.14%
1914 33.26%
1915 37.26%
1916 24.02%
1917 19.12%
1918 10.94%
1919 24.28%
1920 25.00%
1921 30.82%
1922 12.88%
1923 26.72%
1924 21.92%
1925 15.54%
1926 9.28%
1927 16.58%
1928 19.96%
1929 15.88%
1930 9.74%
1931 19.82%
1932 10.76%
1933 9.54%
1934 25.06%
1935 13.54%
1936 21.30%
1937 13.44%
1938 8.72%
1939 15.92%
1940 22.14%
1941 34.54%
1942 18.08%
1943 12.40%
1944 23.78%
1945 13.98%
1946 7.42%
1947 17.98%
1948 12.02%
1949 7.54%
1950 18.90%
1951 19.52%
1952 6.02%
1953 10.28%
1954 17.44%
1955 17.80%
1956 18.04%
1957 15.26%
1958 12.52%
1959 16.60%
1960 18.38%
1961 13.92%
1962 11.60%
1963 16.22%
1964 10.88%
1965 28.90%
1966 9.44%
1967 19.10%
1968 14.32%
1969 3.64%
1970 7.34%
1971 7.42%
1972 8.36%
1973 16.10%
1974 11.50%
1975 15.56%
1976 11.40%
1977 12.68%
1978 16.54%
1979 25.74%
1980 23.00%
1981 14.12%
1982 12.30%
1983 24.86%
1984 32.70%
1985 15.76%
1986 16.54%
1987 14.24%
1988 25.74%
1989 9.96%
1990 12.22%
1991 14.94%
1992 28.40%
1993 25.68%
1994 38.22%
1995 15.02%
1996 28.56%
1997 14.40%
1998 15.42%
1999 19.50%
2000 32.20%
2001 16.08%
2002 52.32%
2003 37.98%
2004 9.64%
2005 16.04%
2006 38.84%
2007 45.70%
2008 25.94%
2009 7.28%
2010 15.46%
2011 34.40%
2012 49.30%

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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.