Figure 50.2

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

This figure appears in chapter 50 of the NOAA-led State Summaries 2017 report.

The observed number of very hot days (annual number of days with maximum temperature above 95°F) for 1950–2014, averaged over 5-year periods; these values are averages from 45 long-term reporting stations. Wyoming experienced the largest number (since 1950) of very hot days during the early part of the 21st century. The dark horizontal line is the long-term average of 8.6 days per year. The number of very hot days for the contiguous United States (bottom panel) is also shown to provide a longer and larger context. Long-term stations back to 1900 were not available for Wyoming. 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 40.9946° to 45.0060° latitude, and -104.0518° to -111.0563° longitude.

Provenance

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