Figure 40.3

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

This figure appears in chapter 40 of the NOAA-led State Summaries 2017 report.

The observed number of very warm nights (minimum temperature above 75°F) for 1900–2014, averaged over 5-year periods; these values are averages from 12 long-term reporting stations. The number of very warm nights has been above average since the early 1980s. The highest number of very warm nights occurred in the most recent 5-year period of 2010–2014, with an average of 8 nights per year, more than double the long-term average. The dark horizontal line is the long-term (1900–2014) average of 3.8 days per year at a typical station. Source: CICS-NC and NOAA NCEI.

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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 32.0374° to 35.2155° latitude, and -78.5409° to -83.3539° longitude.

Provenance

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