U.S. Climate Extremes Index (CEI)
- Introduction
- Data Used
- Definition
- Graph
- Regional Overview
- References
Regional Overview
Choose a period/season from the options below to display a regional analysis of the most recent year.
Regional CEI (All Steps Combined)
Percent Area Coverage of Indicator by Region
Annual 2012
| Contig- uous U.S. |
North East |
Upper Mid- west |
Ohio Valley |
South East |
South | Northern Rockies and Plains |
South West |
West | North West |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEI | 50% | 50% | 54% | 56% | 40% | 57% | 49% | 56% | 44% | 32% |
| Max Temp (Warm) | 85% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 68% | 94% | 94% | 97% | 67% | 36% |
| Max Temp (Cold) | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Min Temp (Warm) | 80% | 100% | 100% | 97% | 85% | 94% | 82% | 77% | 34% | 27% |
| Min Temp (Cold) | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| PDSI (Wet) | 4% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 26% |
| PDSI (Dry) | 35% | 20% | 37% | 35% | 32% | 40% | 27% | 68% | 24% | 4% |
| 1-Day Precip | 12% | 6% | 14% | 14% | 3% | 13% | 0% | 8% | 42% | 20% |
| Days w/ Precip | 7% | 6% | 2% | 2% | 8% | 1% | 7% | 0% | 14% | 27% |
| Days w/out Precip | 17% | 11% | 5% | 14% | 0% | 32% | 30% | 24% | 0% | 0% |
| Coldest | Bottom Tenth | Bottom Third | Mid- | Top Third | Top Tenth | Warmest |
| Driest | Bottom Tenth | Bottom Third | Range | Top Third | Top Tenth | Wettest |


