Figure 28.4

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

This figure appears in chapter 28 of the NOAA-led State Summaries 2017 report.

The observed annual precipitation for 1895–2014, averaged over 5-year periods; these values are from NCEI’s version 2 climate division dataset. 5-year average precipitation has ranged from less than 9 inches in 1925–1929 to almost 13.5 inches in 1980–1984. The early part of the 21st century has been below average. Source: CICS-NC and NOAA NCEI.

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The time range for this figure is January 01, 1895 (00:00 AM) to December 31, 2014 (00:00 AM).

This figure was created on April 13, 2015.

The spatial range for this figure is 35.0023° to 42.0018° latitude, and -114.0394° to -120.0058° longitude.

Provenance

This figure was derived from dataset U.S. Climate Divisional Dataset Version 2 using the activity nv_observed-nca3-cddv2-r1-process