Temperature Monitoring Station:
MIDDLESBORO FIRE DEPT

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		-0.84
After quality control		-0.87
After breakpoint alignment		0.55
Regional expectation during same months		0.62 ± 0.15
National average during same months		0.96 ± 0.10
Global land average during same months		1.09 ± 0.03

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 2.4	0.82
After Quality Control	± 1.8	0.88
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.3	0.94

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	23
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	21
Extreme local outliers	3
Regional climatology outliers	3
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	1
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	26

Station ID Codes

COOP	150381
COOP	155389
COOP	155390
GHCND	USC00150381
GHCND	USC00155389
GHCND	USC00155390
GHCNM	42500150381
GHCNM	42572326006
HADCRU	751010
NCDC	20008095
NCDC	20008141
NCDC	30015675
NWS	BBVK2
NWS	MBOK2
NWS	MDDK2
NWS	MIDK2

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.