The graph below plots all 1,999,843 summer maximum temperature readings at all 191 Midwest USHCN stations since 1895, with trend lines.

Eighty-four percent of the stations are cooling. Ohio and Indiana are cooling the fastest.

The center of the histogram is around a cooling rate of 1.9 degrees F per century.

Warmer stations are cooling faster than cooler stations.

The warmest stations are in Illinois and Missouri, and they are all cooling rapidly.

State	Station	        Average	 Trend
IL	HARRISBURG	89.3976	-2.28345
IL	SPARTA 1 W	88.4185	-1.45161
IL	DU QUOIN 4 SE	88.416	-2.89015
IL	MCLEANSBORO	88.3372	-1.57476
MO	LAMAR 7N	88.0649	-1.92598
IL	ANNA 2 NNE	87.9895	-1.25118
MO	JEFFERSON CITY  87.9181	-1.69554
IL	PALESTINE	87.6027	-1.6959
MO	LEXINGTON 3E	87.5619	-1.12669
IN	PRINCETON 1 W	87.5496	-2.29688
IL	MT VERNON 3 NE	87.5322	-4.45588
MO	MEXICO	        87.4598	-1.78494

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August 7, 2019 at 01:49PM