Global temperatures – the warmest 12 months
Global temperatures aren’t strictly seasonal because they are a monthly anomaly for the whole globe, so I reckon any seasonality should be cancelled out …
Global Temperatures
Jan 2021 – mid month temperature anomalies
It is shaping up to be a weird kind of January temperature wise, and although we’re only half way through the month it’s looking …
Never mind the quantity look at the slope
There can be no doubt that global temperatures are on the rise, but the big question is not by how much, but at what …
Warm but not quite warm enough
Even the newly cobbled together HadCRUT5 global temperatures series couldn’t help 2020 overtake 2016 as the warmest year on record. Despite the UKMO best …
Since when did 0.625 equal 0.632?
The annual temperature for 2020 in the ERA5 series from Copernicus was 0.625°C making it the second warmest year behind 2016 in their record …
2020 fifth warmest year globally
Despite what other global temperature series are saying about 2020 my own DIY global temperature series makes it only the fifth warmest behind 2015, …
December 2020 second warmest globally
My DIY global temperature series shows that the month of December 2020 was the second highest since the start of the DIY series in …
Climate warming scepticism and 42 day extended forecasts from the ECMWF
Three more weeks of below average temperatures across IONA, otherwise known as rather cold, that’s according to the latest 42 day long range forecast …
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2020 odds on as the warmest year on record
If I’ve done my maths right, and even though Decembers figures are not still not in yet, there’s no stopping 2020 being crowned the …
Global temperatures November 2020
The running 12 month average of the seven main global temperature anomalies have more or less levelled off in November 2020. It had looked …
The world has suddenly got 0.16°C warmer!
Some breaking news from the Met Office and the University of East Anglia this afternoon. They’ve suddenly discovered that they’ve been taking the temperature …
ERA5 smashes record for warmest November
The ERA5 global mean temperature anomaly from Copernicus for November was +0.774°C above the 1981-2010 LTA. I don’t usually go in for euphemisms like …
What will climate change look like near me?
The new How will the climate change near me tool dreamed up by the Met Office and made available for all to try on …
November 2020 – very mild in northern Europe but colder in the southeast
Another very mild month in November across northern Europe and northern Russia, but colder, or should that read closer to average temperatures across southeastern …
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Grim news as the Arctic defrost accelerates into the autumn
Temperature anomalies so far this November across the Arctic Ocean and the north of Russia are as high as 17°C above the LTA in …
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Global temperatures fall back in October
Five of the seven main global temperature series have posted their estimates of the global temperature anomaly for the month of October 2020 so …
Exceptionally mild start to November
An exceptionally mild start to the first eleven days of November almost everywhere in this chart that is apart from the central North Atlantic …
October 2020 – Temperature anomalies
No wonder the Arctic Ocean was unable to freeze offshore across the Laptev and East Siberian Sea during October with anomalies as high as …
September global temperatures – why is the HadCRUT series lagging behind GISTemp?
I was surprised to see the record high global temperature anomaly of +1.0°C for September 2020 in the GISTemp series, especially when September 2020 …
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Is GISTemp4 running a little hot?
September 2020 was the warmest globally since their record began in 1980 with a monthly anomaly 0f exactly 1°C above the 1951-1980 LTA. This …
Exeter hotter than Death Valley by 2200
I couldn’t help but extrapolate the curves in the chart of forecast temperature extremes for Exeter from the Met Office in their latest blog. …
September European Temperatures from Copernicus
Europe in September 2020 was predominantly warmer than the 1981-2010 average for September. Temperatures were most above average in countries bordering the Black Sea, …
Are Atlantic tropical cyclones intensifying more quickly?
I have just read a recent report Tropical cyclone intensification trends during satellite era (1986–2010) that claims that the world’s tropical cyclones are intensifying …
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Slide in GISTemp puts final nail in the coffin
The GISTemp global temperatures for August 2020 have just been published, and although the month was 0.85°C above the 1951-1980 LTA and the fourth …