Figure 3.3

Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites - NC
Kenneth E. Kunkel

This figure appears in chapter 3 of the NOAA-led State Summaries 2017 report.

The observed number of extremely warm nights (annual number of days with minimum temperature above 80°F) for 1930–2014, averaged over 5-year periods; these values are averages from 27 long-term reporting stations. For the past 25 years, Arizona has experienced an above average number of extremely warm nights. The dark horizontal line represents the long-term average. Source: CICS-NC and NOAA NCEI.

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The time range for this figure is January 01, 1930 (00:00 AM) to December 31, 2014 (00:00 AM).

This figure was created on July 14, 2015.

The spatial range for this figure is 31.3320° to 37.0037° latitude, and -109.0450° to -114.8164° longitude.

Provenance

This figure was derived from dataset Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily using the activity az-extremely-warm-nights-noaa-ncdc-ghcn-daily-process