Wednesday, February 04, 2009
January global temperature anomaly is up sharply
Because I am nothing if not fair and balanced, I note for the record that the preliminary January global temperature anomaly was up significantly over the prior month. It will be interesting to see where the increases were, because they must have been dramatic to compensate for the very cold month in eastern North America.
6 Comments:
By 
, at
Wed Feb 04, 08:13:00 PM:
Take a look at Australia, they are burning up, although it is now raining in some parts.
By , at
Wed Feb 04, 11:11:00 PM:
I understand the prelim data does not include North America.
By , at
Wed Feb 04, 11:20:00 PM:
Scratch that. It's the NCDC data that does not yet have Jan 2009.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/cag3/cag3.html
By , at
Thu Feb 05, 01:37:00 AM:
Fairly posted, TH.
Arctic sea ice now tracking the 06-07 record low, while Antarctic has dropped back to average. Could all be a fluke I suppose:
http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/daily.html
Eastern North America is <3% of the global surface area.
By 
Gary Rosen, at
Thu Feb 05, 04:03:00 AM:
This is easily explained by the huge mass of hot air that descended on the United States around the 20th.
By Viking Kaj, at
Thu Feb 05, 11:13:00 AM:
Well hell hasn't frozen over yet, but I understand it has become a near run thing for Chicago.
