USCRN vs NOAA September 2012 update.

The USCRN is a new ‘state of the art’ United States Climate Reference Network. The USCRN “consists of 114 stations developed, deployed, managed, and maintained by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the continental United States for the express purpose of detecting the national signal of climate change.”

This is the monthly Mean from both NOAA and USCRN for September 2012 for the 48 continental states.

16 states show USCRN stations warmer than NOAA (bold) and 32 show NOAA warmer than USCRN.

NOAA – USCRN = NOAA state temperature average minus USCRN state temperature average.

Ignoring area weighting, the NOAA temperature averaged 0.80F warmer than USCRN.

State	NOAA	USCRN	NOAA – USCRN
Alabama	73	71.72	1.28
Arizona	73.7	74.61	-0.91
Arkansas	73.1	71.24	1.86
California	72.7	72.37	0.33
Colorado	59.6	59.76	-0.16
Florida	79.5	80.36	-0.86
Georgia	74.1	74.97	-0.87
Idaho	59.3	61.88	-2.58
Illinois	64.7	61.52	3.18
Indiana	64.1	64.76	-0.66
Iowa	61.8	63.14	-1.34
Kansas	67.6	66.02	1.58
Kentucky	67	67.19	-0.19
Louisiana	77.2	75.83	1.37
Maine	56.4	55.58	0.82
Michigan	58.5	54.86	3.64
Minnesota	57.1	54.23	2.87
Mississippi	74.2	71.24	2.96
Missouri	66.7	65.84	0.86
Montana	58.4	55.72	2.68
Nebraska	63.4	62.83	0.57
Nevada	65.4	67.52	-2.12
New Hampshire	58.3	59.45	-1.15
New Mexico	66.1	64.17	1.93
New York	60	59.63	0.37
North Carolina	69.8	66.26	3.54
North Dakota	57.2	57.98	-0.78
Ohio	63.2	62.24	0.96
Oklahoma	74.1	71.73	2.37
Oregon	60.9	61.34	-0.44
Pennsylvania	62.3	64.4	-2.1
Rhode Island	62.9	61.88	1.02
South Carolina	73.4	74.03	-0.63
South Dakota	62.5	61.34	1.16
Tennessee	69	64.22	4.78
Texas	76.7	76.84	-0.14
Utah	64.1	63.75	0.35
Virginia	67.1	68.36	-1.26
Washington	60.6	58.28	2.32
West Virginia	64	57.2	6.8
Wisconsin	57.8	57.56	0.24
Wyoming	58.3	58.22	0.08