Climate guides: How to read the normals and what they say
8 guides to NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals, each reading its figures from the same records as the 4,764 place pages: what a normal is, how frost dates and dew point work, and how to choose a climate by measurement.
The guides
- Best climates for retirementMild winters, cool summers, dry air and sun, measured
- Best climates for livingMild days, four seasons and extremes
- Understanding climate normalsWhat NOAA's 30-year averages are
- Climate change and climate normalsWhat a fixed baseline can and cannot show
- Frost dates explainedThe three probabilities and the hard freeze
- Humidity and comfort explainedWhy dew point matters
- How to read climate dataHighs, lows, precipitation, snow, records
- Understanding extreme weatherHeat, freezes and records