Figure 42.4

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

This figure appears in chapter 42 of the NOAA-led State Summaries 2017 report.

The observed annual precipitation for 1895–2014, averaged over 5-year periods; these values are averages from NCEI’s version 2 climate division dataset. Annual precipitation varies widely from year to year. For the most recent 5-year period (2010–2014), precipitation has been above the long-term average. The dark horizontal line is the long-term average (1895–2014) of 51.8 inches. 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 34.9832° to 36.6783° latitude, and -81.6469° to -90.3105° longitude.

Provenance

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