Figure 48.4

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

This figure appears in chapter 48 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 five long-term reporting stations. The number of very cold nights has remained below average for the past two decades (1990–2014). The dark horizontal line is the long-term average (1900–2014) of 3.5 days per year. 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 37.2017° to 40.6378° latitude, and -77.7189° to -82.6444° longitude.

Provenance

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