Temperature Monitoring Station:
BAY SAINT LOUIS

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		-0.88
After quality control		-0.86
After breakpoint alignment		0.60
Regional expectation during same months		0.68 ± 0.15
National average during same months		0.91 ± 0.11
Global land average during same months		1.05 ± 0.04

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 4.2	0.54
After Quality Control	± 2.9	0.71
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 2.6	0.75

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	10
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	11
Extreme local outliers	4
Regional climatology outliers	4
Abrupt jumps	2
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	0
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	5
Frame shift repetitions	1
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	1
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	2
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	21

Station ID Codes

COOP	220519
COOP	229426
GHCND	USC00220519
GHCND	USC00229426
GHCNM	42500229426
GHCNM	42572233001
GSOD	997367-99999
HADCRU	756277
ICAO	WAVM6
NCDC	20011107
NCDC	20011108
NCDC	20011513
NWS	WVLM6
USAF	997367
WBAN	93868

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.