Cooling Degree Hours: Using Hourly Data to Properly Understand Warm Summer Nights

Using temperature and humidity data from Monday morning in eastern Nebraska, we discuss how using hourly atmospheric data tells a more comprehensive story than maximum and minimum data alone.

Atmospheric sciences are filled with numbers. We are constantly trying to measure everything - temperature, humidity, pressure, winds - if the atmosphere has a property of any kind, we try to measure it.

With the amount of data and numbers that are recorded hourly, it is important to understand what our data is telling us. What is the physical context of…