Wednesday, June 11, 2014

GISTEMP redux: (Still) 2nd warmest April in the temperature record

+.73C, an increase of .03C compared to March and the hottest April ever, bar 2010 (as an aside, the first half of 2010 was a scorcher.)

How hot is that? Well, prior to 1970, the hottest April since records begin was in May 1969, +0.15C. The people alive in 1970 had never seen a April within half a degree of what we just saw. Given the inherent variability of monthly temperatures, that's pretty amazing.

3 comments:

  1. 0.73 is for April. There is no value for May yet.

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  2. Shoot! You are quite right. I got my columns confused. Well, that makes this post a lot less newsworthy.

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  3. Well, there's your May, finally. And it's the hottest on record at 0.76:

    http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata_v3/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt

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