Extreme Weather in Kansas

One of theorized consequences of climate change/global warming is that more extreme weather is supposed to occur. One possible measure of extreme weather is the number of days where the temperature meets or exceeds 90 degree fahrenheit. This is one of the monthly variables that NOAA happens to collect and report for each weather station in the country.

This post examines monthly weather data in Kansas from 1900 through 2013 to determine if the number of days where the temperature has met or exceed 90 degrees has increased over time. For this analysis, data from every weather station in Kansas was collected from the NOAA website. All the stations within a particular county were averaged together to produce a county number for each month and each variable.