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 10.80%
1911 18.26%
1912 22.14%
1913 26.04%
1914 13.74%
1915 14.10%
1916 33.48%
1917 17.30%
1918 7.78%
1919 16.24%
1920 11.24%
1921 10.30%
1922 6.32%
1923 28.52%
1924 27.36%
1925 12.18%
1926 16.44%
1927 7.06%
1928 13.46%
1929 15.28%
1930 4.94%
1931 27.18%
1932 7.52%
1933 13.78%
1934 17.46%
1935 6.68%
1936 14.80%
1937 9.02%
1938 15.94%
1939 6.84%
1940 15.12%
1941 19.96%
1942 12.28%
1943 25.06%
1944 31.52%
1945 12.52%
1946 1.68%
1947 25.86%
1948 13.82%
1949 14.26%
1950 9.38%
1951 10.12%
1952 11.30%
1953 21.40%
1954 19.52%
1955 8.66%
1956 2.84%
1957 2.80%
1958 24.58%
1959 18.54%
1960 22.36%
1961 24.20%
1962 1.70%
1963 16.06%
1964 8.52%
1965 32.64%
1966 6.02%
1967 14.42%
1968 3.62%
1969 5.00%
1970 8.20%
1971 4.38%
1972 12.38%
1973 0.00%
1974 9.30%
1975 5.30%
1976 34.38%
1977 20.46%
1978 15.36%
1979 4.40%
1980 10.38%
1981 25.34%
1982 15.34%
1983 43.12%
1984 21.14%
1985 9.26%
1986 5.10%
1987 10.86%
1988 9.88%
1989 7.48%
1990 11.92%
1991 4.28%
1992 19.00%
1993 26.52%
1994 17.02%
1995 21.80%
1996 28.92%
1997 21.42%
1998 24.96%
1999 2.84%
2000 17.06%
2001 22.94%
2002 25.02%
2003 35.42%
2004 15.34%
2005 24.64%
2006 31.58%
2007 35.02%
2008 25.82%
2009 22.48%
2010 7.04%
2011 23.10%
2012 29.02%

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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.