I'm monitoring the monthly temperature averages for the period of record in the regions for each of the NWS Cooperative Climate Stations (rural, forested and small town areas) and
creating average monthly temperature plots because I think someone needs to be doing this.
We
created four largely independent climate variables to represent present climate, derived from
average monthly mean
temperature and
monthly total precipitation from the 1 km resolution DAYMET 1980 — 1998 mean climate database (www.daymet.org)[63].