IEM Daily Feature
Thursday, 02 October 2014

September Ranks

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 05:43 AM

Climate Districts are a spatial aggregation that exist between individual counties and states that provide a map unit to produce estimated climate data on. The IEM generates daily spatially averaged estimates of precipitation and high/low temperature for these climate districts and has daily data available back to 1893. The featured map displays the rank of the September total precipitation for each of these districts. A value of one represents the wettest month. Even within a climate district, there is plenty of variability as convective rain events are on a much smaller scale and thus lead to large district to district differences in some cases.

Voting:
Good = 18
Bad = 9
Abstain = 9

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