This shift, coupled with seasonalvariation, might make for a confusing winter for users of weather.com, with more surprise raindrops or snowfalls than usual.
The SAAR is an estimate for what sales would be for an entire year if they continued at the sales pace for a given month, taking seasonalvariation into account.
Seasonal adjustment is generally speaking a good thing, because seasonal changes definitely have an effect, and it is good that statisticians present their data in a way that takes out some of the seasonalvariation.
Checking data collected at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and the Federal Physical and Technical Institute in Germany, they came across something even more surprising: long-term observation of the decay rate of silicon-32 and radium-226 seemed to show a small seasonalvariation.