Figure 37.2

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

This figure appears in chapter 37 of the NOAA-led State Summaries 2017 report.

The observed number of extremely hot days (annual number of days with maximum temperature above 100°F) for 1900–2014, averaged over 5-year periods; these values are averages from 14 long-term reporting stations. The dark horizontal line represents the long-term average. The number of extremely hot days has been mostly above the long-term average since the late 1980s, reaching a historic peak in 2000–2004. However, the number was below average during the most recent 5-year period. Source: CICS-NC and NOAA NCEI.

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The time range for this figure is December 31, 1899 (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 41.9920° to 46.2938° latitude, and -116.4633° to -124.5664° longitude.

Provenance

This figure was derived from dataset Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily using the activity or-extremely-hot-days-noaa-ncdc-ghcn-daily-process