Salish Sea Climate Station Normals 1991 to 2020

1991-2020 Climate Normals calculated for GHCN climate stations in the Salish Sea Bioregion. Created for the Salish Sea Atlas (wp.wwu.edu/SalishSeaAtlas). 1991-2020 average monthly climate records for stations in the Salish Sea Bioregion. Monthly variables are labeled as follows: P = precipitation, T = mean temperature, MaxT = maximum temperature, MinT = minimum temperature. Precipitation is recorded in millimeters, temperature is recorded in degrees Celsius. Data tables were download from NOAA's GHCN records for all climate stations in the Salish Sea Bioregion and reformatted to follow the structure needed for spatial datasets. Stations were filtered based on record length to exclude any stations with less than 20 years of data reported during the 1991-2020 time period. 99 climate stations' records are included in this dataset, but for maps in the Salish Sea Atlas, only the 29 stations with a value "Yes" in the "Display Station" field are shown. The stations displayed in the Atlas were selected based on their record length and to insure widespread coverage across the region and representation of a variety of topographic settings.