The Washington Post today announces the climate data from Pulitzer Prize-winning series “2°C: Beyond the Limit” will be available on GitHub. The data will allow users to create their own charts showing the changing temperatures in a specific county or state, map temperature change in a region and explore seasonal differences in climate change. The series pioneered the use of temperature data, demonstrating that extreme climate change is already a life-altering reality across 10 percent of the Earth’s surface.

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To analyze warming temperatures in the United States, The Washington Post used the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Divisional Database and Gridded 5km GHCN-Daily Temperature and Precipitation Dataset data sets, which provide monthly temperature data between 1895 and 2019 for the Lower 48 states.

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Learn More: How to Use The Post’s Climate Data Analysis, Includes Links to Data Files

Direct to Washington Post GitHub Repository