Temperature Monitoring Station:
VALDOSTA WB AIRPORT

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		-0.72
After quality control		-0.72
After breakpoint alignment		0.50
Regional expectation during same months		0.56 ± 0.11
National average during same months		1.02 ± 0.09
Global land average during same months		1.18 ± 0.03

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 1.8	0.85
After Quality Control	± 1.6	0.88
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.2	0.93

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	3
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	7
Extreme local outliers	1
Regional climatology outliers	1
Abrupt jumps	0
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	0
Frame shift repetitions	0
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	0
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	8

Station ID Codes

COOP	98964
COOP	98969
COOP	98972
COOP	98974
FAA	VLD
GHCND	USC00098964
GHCND	USC00098972
GHCND	USC00098974
GHCND	USW00093845
GSOD	722166-93845
GSOD	722166-99999
GSOD	999999-93845
ICAO	KVLD
NCDC	20004698
NCDC	20004700
NCDC	20004704
NCDC	20004705
NWS	VALG1
NWS	VLD
NWS	VLDG1
USAF	722166
WBAN	93845

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.