I created a estimate of  the tempature of the lower 48 for the month of january from 1950 to 2006 to test how "saturated" the ushsn is.
I compared my estimate to the 
NCDC Data.
results in text
also a list of stations used

in my analysis I averaged  two 5 by 5 degree rows. one the south was around 35 degrees latitude the other was at 45.
then I multiplied the anomalies by the cosine of the latitude.
my estimate is in blue,ncdc is red
one year
one year
5 year
five year
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