Made March 2023
The purpose of this post is merely to catalogue the number of counts or reports of daily high maximums, high minimums, low minimums, and low maximums coming into the National Center for Environmental Information’s site and all related charts and graphs produced in my Excel files for those data sets for the country of Bolivia. I am in the process of constantly updating this data verifying the 2009 Meehl et. all surface Records published in geophysical Science that I initiated from the year 2000. Each individual count could be a tied surface record or one broken by several degrees Fahrenheit.
Here is the link to the NCEI site that I glean data from:
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records
More from NCEI:
“The daily records summarized here are compiled from a subset of stations in the Global Historical Climatological Network. A station is defined as the complete daily weather records at a particular location, having a unique identifier in the GHCN-Daily dataset.
For a station to be considered for any parameter, it must have a minimum of 30 years of data with more than 182 days complete each year. This is effectively a “30-year record of service” requirement, but allows for inclusion of some stations which routinely shut down during certain seasons. Small station moves, such as a move from one property to an adjacent property, may occur within a station history. However, larger moves, such as a station moving from downtown to the city airport, generally result in the commissioning of a new station identifier. This tool treats each of these histories as a different station. In this way, it does not “thread” the separate histories into one record for a city.
This tool provides simplistic counts of records to provide insight into recent climate behavior, but is not a definitive way to identify trends in the number of records set over time. This is particularly true outside the United States, where the number of records may be strongly influenced by station density from country to country and from year to year. These data are raw and have not been assessed for the effects of changing station instrumentation and time of observation.”
An updated 2016 study from Dr. Jerry Meehl indicates that the ratio from year to year will average around 15 to 1 by 2100:
Per one of the authors of both the 2009 and 2016 studies, Claudia Tebaldi said “This climate is on a trajectory that goes somewhere we’ve never been. And records are a very easy measure of that.”
Data is now complete through the 2010s. All of the data listed below is part of this one chart. Prior to 1980 there were very few reports of records, so I have opted not to catalog data prior to that year. The ratio of daily record high maximums to low minimums for the 2000s was higher than any decade since the 1980s:
Here are the current daily record counts per decade, which have gone into the prior chart:
Blue colors represent cold months and red warm. Those months with counts close to a 1 to 1 ratio of highs to lows are colored black. I am searching for a good database for Bolivia to rank all months and years for average temperatures. Drop me a line if you know of one.
Time stamps for when I last updated counts are located in the upper left-hand corner of each chart. Drop me a note if you see an error or if you have suggestions for improvements.
The 2020s:
The 2010s:
The 2000s:
The 1990s:
The 1980s:
All of the data listed below is part of this one chart. So far, the ratio of daily record high minimums to low maximums for the 2020s is higher than any decade since the 1980s:
Here are the current daily record counts per decade, which have gone into the prior chart:
The following is a dataset that implies that days are warming faster than nights across South Africa:
For the following data sets of record high minimums and low maximums from Bolivia, blue colors represent cold months and red warm. Those months with counts close to a 1 to 1 ratio of highs to lows are colored black. I have opted not to catalogue data prior to 1980 since record counts decrease substantially prior to 1990. Time stamps for when I last updated counts are located in the upper left-hand corner of each chart. Drop me a note if you see an error or if you have suggestions for improvements.
The 2020s:
The 2010s:
The 2000s:
The 1990s:
The 1980s:
These are all of the counts of NCEI daily record reports for the country of Bolivia going back to the year 1980.
Guy Walton “The Climate Guy”