In today’s world, climate change has been a critical issue for quite some now. It requires urgent attentions.
For this analysis, I have sourced average temperatures of all U.S. states to reflect climate in the U.S.
Date rage of data is from
Source: [NOAA] (https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/statewide/mapping/110-tavg-201901-1.csv)
According to the graph, temperatures across all U.S. states ranges from 58.5F (Florida) to 7.4F (Minnesota). Florida being the hottest state, and surpass the next state by 10F.
Anomoly is an easy way to identify trends and changes over time. The baseline was established using the average statewide temprature from 1901 to 2000. This is used to reference as the expected average temperature, and comparing the current numbers to the expected values can easily gauge climate changes and its impact.
As observed from the graph, Montana has a high anomoly of 8.3F, this is fairly significant considering the next one up is 5.7F. On the other hand, Michigan is 0.8F lower than the expected temperature, meaning that the climate has caused the weather at Michigan to go down slightly.