Temperature Monitoring Station:
YUMA CITRUS STATION

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		0.10
After quality control		-0.42
After breakpoint alignment		0.69
Regional expectation during same months		0.64 ± 0.13
National average during same months		0.23 ± 0.12
Global land average during same months		0.72 ± 0.04

Regional Consistency

Comparison of monthly mean station data to regional expectation

	Typical Difference (°C, 95% range)	Correlation (R value)
Raw Monthly Anomalies	± 1.5	0.87
After Quality Control	± 1.3	0.90
After Breakpoint Adjustment	± 1.0	0.93

Quality Control Summary

Months missing 10 or more days	59
Serially repeated daily or monthly values	28
Extreme local outliers	1
Regional climatology outliers	1
Abrupt jumps	0
Marked as bad or manually changed by source	10
Exceeds global climatological range	0
Isolated observations	10
Frame shift repetitions	0
TMAX / TMIN inconsistency	0
TAVG outside TMAX / TMIN range	11
Total Observations Rejected by Quality Control	69

Station ID Codes

COOP	29652
GHCND	USC00029652
GHCNM	42500029652
NCDC	10100068
NWS	YCTA3

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.