Temperature Monitoring Station:
ALLENTOWN/A.-BETHLEHEM-EASTON, PA.

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		-0.22
After quality control		-0.24
After breakpoint alignment		0.99
Regional expectation during same months		1.08 ± 0.10
National average during same months		0.88 ± 0.08
Global land average during same months		1.12 ± 0.02

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 1.6	0.89
After Quality Control	± 1.6	0.89
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.2	0.94

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	3
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	4
Extreme local outliers	0
Regional climatology outliers	0
Abrupt jumps	0
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	1
Frame shift repetitions	0
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	0
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	4

Station ID Codes

COOP	360106
COOP	360629
COOP	360634
FAA	ABE
GHCND	USC00360629
GHCND	USC00360634
GHCND	USW00014737
GHCNM	42500360106
GHCNM	42572517000
GSOD	725170-14737
GSOD	999999-14737
HADCRU	725170
ICAO	KABE
NCDC	20016824
NCDC	20016825
NCDC	20016842
NWS	ABE
USAF	725170
WBAN	14737
WMO	72517
WMSSC	725170
WWR	72517

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.