Figure 44.2

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

This figure appears in chapter 44 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 12 long-term reporting stations. The number of extremely hot days has been above the long-term average since the late 1980s, reaching a peak in 2000–2004. However, the number of such days was slightly below average for the most recent 5-year period. The dark horizontal line is the long-term average (1900–2014) of 10.6 days per year. 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 36.9978° to 42.0017° latitude, and -109.0415° to -114.0531° longitude.

Provenance

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

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