Figure 32.3

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

This figure appears in chapter 32 of the NOAA-led State Summaries 2017 report.

The observed number of very cold nights (annual number of days with minimum temperature below 0°F) for 1900–2014, averaged over 5-year periods; these values are averages from all 16 long-term reporting stations. The number of very cold nights has been below average since 1990s, reflecting a long-term winter warming trend. The dark horizontal line is the long-term average of 13.8 days per year. Source: CICS-NC and NOAA NCEI.

Free to use with credit to the original figure source.

The time range for this figure is January 01, 1900 (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 40.4960° to 45.0128° latitude, and -71.8562° to -79.7620° longitude.

Provenance

This figure was derived from dataset Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily using the activity ny-very-cold-nights-noaa-ncdc-ghcn-daily-process