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
Summer (June-August) 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 | 32% | 35% | 35% | 34% | 16% | 31% | 38% | 49% | 29% | 16% |
| Max Temp (Warm) | 50% | 44% | 64% | 52% | 5% | 45% | 77% | 77% | 33% | 22% |
| Max Temp (Cold) | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 8% |
| Min Temp (Warm) | 38% | 73% | 38% | 5% | 19% | 37% | 45% | 79% | 24% | 14% |
| Min Temp (Cold) | 1% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 2% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| PDSI (Wet) | 3% | 3% | 4% | 0% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 26% |
| PDSI (Dry) | 36% | 33% | 32% | 62% | 13% | 34% | 39% | 66% | 37% | 0% |
| 1-Day Precip | 9% | 8% | 14% | 11% | 13% | 13% | 6% | 12% | 0% | 0% |
| Days w/ Precip | 6% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 3% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 47% | 11% |
| Days w/out Precip | 8% | 8% | 11% | 24% | 0% | 8% | 16% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Coldest | Bottom Tenth | Bottom Third | Mid- | Top Third | Top Tenth | Warmest |
| Driest | Bottom Tenth | Bottom Third | Range | Top Third | Top Tenth | Wettest |


