Temperature Monitoring Station:
NEWCASTLE

Monthly Mean Temperature Data

Raw Data relative to Expected Monthly Means

Difference from Regional Expectation

Breakpoint Adjusted Annual Average Comparison

Mean Rate of Change ( °C / Century )

Raw monthly anomalies		-2.36
After quality control		4.49
After breakpoint alignment		-1.71
Regional expectation during same months		0.60 ± 1.54
National average during same months		-0.93 ± 0.98
Global land average during same months		1.66 ± 0.37

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 3.2	0.53
After Quality Control	± 1.1	0.89
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 0.8	0.92

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	143
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	12
Extreme local outliers	26
Regional climatology outliers	13
Abrupt jumps	0
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	17
Frame shift repetitions	0
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	0
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	143

Station ID Codes

GSOD	683770-99999
GSOD	683780-99999
GSOD	683783-99999
ICAO	FANC
USAF	683770
USAF	683780
USAF	683783
WMO	68377

ID codes may be repeated if the identification of the station changed during its history or if two different records were found to contain the same data, in which case the records would be merged.