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	About the Data About the data     The mean values reported in this data set for New York were computed by averaging historic annual mean temperature values from 40 weather stations interspersed throughout the state.  The plot of New York's mean winter temperature values over the years 1900 to 1999 clearly shows great variability from year to year. The linear regression model has an R2 value of 0.0483, indicating that there is a weak linear trend in the data. Nonetheless, we do observe a slight increase over time in mean temperatures. The linear model has a slope of 0.0234 which indicates that, according to the linear model, winter mean temperatures are increasing 0.0234 degrees Fahrenheit per year. This is equivalent to 2.34 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1.3 degrees Celsius) per century. These trendline numbers cannot be taken as proof that atmospheric warming is happening either statewide or globally, but they are of the same order of magnitude as current predictions made by climate warming experts.     We obtained data sets for New York and the other lower 48 states from the United States Historical Climate Network (USHCN), part of NOAA's National Climate Data Center. The USHCN has historical records for 1221 weather station in the lower 48 states, of which 1182 are currently operational.   The first weather station in New York listed by USHCN began operation in 1854 in the vicinity of Cooperstown.  By 1936 the number of stations increased to 59, which is the number operational today.  For this data set, we selected the weather stations that had continuous winter mean values from 1900 to 1999; there were 40 in all.  The location names of these stations are:  Auburn, Bath, Binghamton, Brockport, Buffalo, Canton, Chazy, Cooperstown, Cortland, Elmira, Fredonia, Geneva, Gloversville, Hemlock, Indian Lake, Ithaca, Lake Placid, Little Falls, Lockport, Lowville, Maryland, Mohonk Lake, New York Central Park, Ogdensburg, Oswego, Penn Yan, Port Jervis, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Setauket Strong, Syracuse, Troy Lock & Dam, Tupper Lake, Utica, Watertown, West Point, and Yorktown Heights. To download our most recent posting of state-by-state temperature files, go to DataSet#050.  Data source: United States Historical Climate Network (USHCN) http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/research/ushcn/ushcn.html
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	View the Data   State of New York Historical Temperature Data winter season mean of 40 weather stations (degrees Fahrenheit) year mean temp. 1900 24.42 1901 20.99 1902 21.41 1903 22.82 1904 15.94 1905 16.93 1906 26.18 1907 19.42 1908 22.55 1909 25.15 1910 21.54 1911 21.34 1912 20.69 1913 27.10 1914 21.83 1915 24.26 1916 23.15 1917 21.12 1918 15.75 1919 27.62 1920 17.20 1921 26.43 1922 22.52 1923 20.51 1924 24.93 1925 23.48 1926 22.64 1927 22.69 1928 24.85 1929 24.59 1930 24.82 1931 24.27 1932 30.47 1933 29.38 1934 18.86 1935 21.28 1936 18.81 1937 28.80 1938 24.29 1939 24.93 1940 21.10 1941 23.43 1942 23.39 1943 21.32 1944 23.49 1945 19.70 1946 22.06 1947 24.87 1948 19.78 1949 28.70 1950 27.51 1951 25.31 1952 26.59 1953 28.82 1954 27.42 1955 23.24 1956 22.76 1957 25.03 1958 23.72 1959 19.49 1960 25.94 1961 20.60 1962 22.73 1963 19.52 1964 21.78 1965 22.98 1966 24.31 1967 24.48 1968 20.94 1969 22.66 1970 19.08 1971 21.30 1972 24.48 1973 24.79 1974 24.25 1975 27.08 1976 23.46 1977 18.69 1978 19.47 1979 20.16 1980 24.43 1981 21.95 1982 21.22 1983 27.98 1984 24.23 1985 25.10 1986 22.54 1987 24.05 1988 24.77 1989 25.08 1990 24.17 1991 27.93 1992 26.10 1993 23.56 1994 18.89 1995 26.59 1996 21.67 1997 27.68 1998 29.42 1999 27.82
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