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Normal Weather

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-019090

To understand whether precipitation and temperature is above or below normal for seasons and longer timescales. normal is defined as the average weather over 30 years. These averages are recalculated every ten years. The National Weather Service has just recalculated the baseline period for normal from 1961 to 1990 to 1971 to 2000. Since the cool decade of the 1960's has been replaced with the mild 1990's. normal temperatures in many areas have increased.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-019090
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesAdapted from NOAA Climate Program Office Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-019090",
  "term": "Normal Weather",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "To understand whether precipitation and temperature is above or below normal for seasons and longer timescales. normal is defined as the average weather over 30 years. These averages are recalculated every ten years. The National Weather Service has just recalculated the baseline period for normal from 1961 to 1990 to 1971 to 2000. Since the cool decade of the 1960's has been replaced with the mild 1990's. normal temperatures in many areas have increased.",
  "references": [
    "Adapted from NOAA Climate Program Office Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/normal-weather/"
}

Record 19,090 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.