Abstract
Much recent popular opinion indicates more weather records are being established now than in the past or what one would expect by chance. The theory of extremes as applied to weather records is reviewed and then compared to the actual frequency of weather records established in the United States. It is concluded that fewer extremes of temperature are being set in recent years contrary to the popular view. Precipitation records are occurring at the normal theoretically expected rate.
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Hoyt, D.V. Weather ‘records’ and climatic change. Climatic Change 3, 243–249 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00136670
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