Temperature Monitoring Station:
FORT LEWIS/GRAY AAF, WA.

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		0.50
After quality control		0.45
After breakpoint alignment		0.62
Regional expectation during same months		0.77 ± 0.17
National average during same months		1.80 ± 0.09
Global land average during same months		1.88 ± 0.09

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 1.6	0.82
After Quality Control	± 1.6	0.82
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.3	0.88

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	6
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	10
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	0
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	10

Station ID Codes

FAA	GRF
GHCND	USW00024201
GSOD	742070-24201
GSOD	742070-99999
GSOD	742071-24201
ICAO	KGRF
NCDC	20027603
USAF	742070
USAF	742071
WBAN	24201
WMO	74207

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.