Methodology
3 World Extreme Weather Monitor articles tagged methodology, newest first. Every article links to the data pages behind the figures it quotes.
Articles
3 tagged methodology- How We Count Weather Records and Why We Differ From NOAA A short guide to what counts as a record here, which stations qualify, how ties and provisional values are handled and why totals can differ slightly from NOAA.
- What Is a Heat Dome and How Do We Detect Heat Waves? A heat dome is a persistent high pressure ridge that traps hot air. We detect heat waves from station records and say heat dome only when data confirms one.
- Station Moves and City Records: How Threaded Records Work Cities move their weather stations, and a naive record can jump. Here is how we join stations into a thread so a city record survives a move, and what we flag.