Automated Data Plotter

This application dynamically generates many types of graphs. These graphs are derived from processing of various data sources done by the IEM. Please feel free to use these generated graphics in whatever way you wish. Reset App. The IEM Explorer application offers a simplified frontend to some of these autoplots.


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How to Summarize
Select State:
Start year for plot
End year (inclusive) for plot
Image Pixel Size @100 DPI
Image Resolution (DPI) (max 500)
Select Output Format:

Plot Description:

This plot shows the weekly change in drought monitor intensity expressed in terms of category change over the area of the selected state. For example, an arrow of length one pointing up would indicate a one category improvement in drought over the area of the state. This plot uses a JSON data service provided by the Drought Monitor website.

In the case of plotting contiguous US values, the magnitude of the change values is multiplied by five as drought changes at that scale are slower than at the state scale when normalized by area.

Based on a sampling of recent timings for this application, plot generation time has averaged 3 seconds. Hold on for the plot is generating now!


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