Temperature Monitoring Station:
MYRTLE BEACH AFB, SC.

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		-0.17
After quality control		-0.24
After breakpoint alignment		0.70
Regional expectation during same months		0.86 ± 0.22
National average during same months		1.22 ± 0.11
Global land average during same months		1.29 ± 0.06

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	± 1.7	0.86
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.6	0.88

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	25
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	24
Extreme local outliers	1
Regional climatology outliers	0
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	2
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	29

Station ID Codes

COOP	386153
COOP	386163
FAA	MYR
GHCND	USC00386153
GHCND	USC00386163
GHCND	USW00013717
GHCNM	42574791002
ICAO	KMYR
NCDC	20017401
NCDC	20017403
NCDC	20017411
NCDC	20017412
NCDC	20017591
NWS	MYBS1
WBAN	13717
WMO	74791

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.