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 26.38%
1911 21.02%
1912 26.70%
1913 6.22%
1914 24.04%
1915 23.08%
1916 15.62%
1917 36.06%
1918 10.72%
1919 10.04%
1920 17.12%
1921 6.36%
1922 27.12%
1923 4.62%
1924 18.18%
1925 10.88%
1926 58.04%
1927 11.92%
1928 24.12%
1929 19.78%
1930 13.24%
1931 44.82%
1932 6.12%
1933 6.14%
1934 65.08%
1935 12.52%
1936 15.14%
1937 5.22%
1938 22.40%
1939 16.06%
1940 17.66%
1941 18.22%
1942 9.58%
1943 6.78%
1944 5.62%
1945 11.44%
1946 3.28%
1947 19.60%
1948 38.94%
1949 4.18%
1950 9.80%
1951 12.56%
1952 8.64%
1953 12.34%
1954 5.32%
1955 21.96%
1956 0.00%
1957 14.18%
1958 22.42%
1959 26.90%
1960 9.54%
1961 5.88%
1962 3.60%
1963 22.18%
1964 18.38%
1965 1.66%
1966 17.88%
1967 40.86%
1968 5.40%
1969 8.18%
1970 23.66%
1971 9.06%
1972 18.00%
1973 3.24%
1974 5.24%
1975 32.98%
1976 19.24%
1977 20.44%
1978 20.78%
1979 7.20%
1980 9.16%
1981 3.52%
1982 15.92%
1983 47.22%
1984 16.66%
1985 2.32%
1986 16.52%
1987 21.96%
1988 14.90%
1989 23.02%
1990 16.22%
1991 32.14%
1992 44.80%
1993 28.80%
1994 8.08%
1995 41.64%
1996 21.32%
1997 41.54%
1998 46.16%
1999 3.42%
2000 13.44%
2001 24.96%
2002 7.44%
2003 15.36%
2004 49.20%
2005 22.04%
2006 31.20%
2007 36.26%
2008 26.06%
2009 22.30%
2010 18.70%
2011 37.82%
2012 24.28%

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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.