Meanwhile the world temperature anomaly as measured by satellite is near zero – Anthony
NOAA: U.S. Temperature and Precipitation Near-Average for June
July 10, 2009
The June 2009 temperature and precipitation for the contiguous United States were near the long-term average, based on records going back to 1895, according to an analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
The average June 2009 temperature of 69.5 degrees F was 0.2 degree F above the 20th Century average. Precipitation across the contiguous United States in June 2009 averaged 2.90 inches, which is 0.01 inch above the long-term value.
U.S. Temperature Highlights
- Above-normal temperatures prevailed in the South, Southeast, and parts of the Northwest, while below-average temperatures were recorded in the Northeast and areas in the Southwest and North Central regions.
- Florida experienced its fourth-warmest June on record. On the cooler side were Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which experienced their ninth- and tenth-coolest June, respectively.
U.S. Precipitation Highlights
- Precipitation was below normal in the southern and northern tier states, but above-normal in the Northeast, West, and parts of the Southwest and West North Central regions.
- Moderate-to-exceptional drought covered 13 percent of the contiguous United States, based on the U.S. Drought Monitor. Drought conditions slightly worsened in the Mississippi Valley, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Drought improvements were seen in the southeastern Rockies and southern High Plains, but remained unchanged in the West.
Other Highlights
- Throughout the High Plains states, flooding and hail affected crops. In Nebraska, preliminary estimates indicate over 150,000 acres of crops were damaged by severe weather, with losses exceeding $10 million.
- There were 6,864 wildfires across the nation in June — the fewest number of fires for the month over the past 10 years. The 525,937 acres burned during June was 435,409 acres below the 2000-2009 average. The 1,903,247 acres burned since January was near the 2000-2009 average of 1,927,474 acres.
NCDC’s preliminary reports, which assess the current state of the climate, are released soon after the end of each month. These analyses are based on preliminary data, which are subject to revision. Additional quality control is applied to the data when late reports are received several weeks after the end of the month and as increased scientific methods improve NCDC’s processing algorithms.
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“NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.”
Wow….they have a pretty high opinion of themselves.
Average? Just average? I thought this was the year without a summer…
While temps have been in the 100’s in TX, I can see the cooler temps elsewhere would make this June par for the course for the US.
Don’t really know what they are talking about with the drought in the Carolinas. June was dryer than usual, but we are FAR from drought conditions. Every lake/stream/reserviour in my area has 100% recovered from the 2007 drought. This past week we dug some fence post holes and you only need to go down ~1 foot to get to moist soil. This spring was, by far, the wettest spring I’ve seen in my area (Charlotte, NC) since I moved here 7 years ago.
Drought? What drought? What are they talking about?
Regarding the temp map:
Wouldn’t it make more sense to shift the colors to the right and have the greens from -2 to +2? Greens indicate average temperatures to me, but that map seems to suggest that most people think of green as a cool color. Maybe it’s just me.
I don’t know about USA but Southern Europe has been cooler than usual.
We even had rain clouds in July…
The statement was:
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“The average June 2009 temperature of 69.5 degrees F was 0.2 degree F above the 20th Century average. Precipitation across the contiguous United States in June 2009 averaged 2.90 inches, which is 0.01 inch above the long-term value.”
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You’ll please pardon me, but …
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I don’t see how THAT statement is even possible.
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Here —in the state of Washington— we’ve experience one of the ~cooler~ beginnings of ‘summer’ than experienced in a quite some time.
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Just =WHO= is writing those reports?
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As I type this, it’s 57º F outside, and that’s in Mukilteo/South Everett.
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Yeah, imagine that: July 13, and 57º freaking degrees, NOT that I’m complaining as I like the cooler temps, being a Highlander an all …
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BUT PLEASE DO gimme a break with the hype!
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Jeez!
Do people have any faith in such ‘official’ reports?
Putting this together with the Real Climate latest post ( warming interrupted) the whole ( co2 ) theory is falling apart rapidly. Trying to make excuses for the recent plateau and subsequent falling temperatures is going to make for some really interesting papers and/or backtracking in the very near future.
Could somebody link me to a chart showing temperature averages for every month in 2009 along with variance from historic average? I’m interested to know if this year is turning out to be another cool year…
I don’t know what they are talking about here in South Carolina. I get the Water Resources Report in my professional position and we do not have drought conditions. In fact due to increased rain compared to drough conditions, headwaters located in NC,SC, and Tenn, were near normal with rain in JUly already leading to flood warnings on major rivers such as the Savanah, Broad and Wateree which means Catawba, Congaree, and Santee Cooper systems. Lynches River and Little Pee Dee were still below normal, but almost all the other “black” river systems were at Normal (Waccamaw, Edisto and Great Pee Dee).
The June weather for Columbia to Hilton Head had one week of higher than average, one week of much higher, and two weeks of lower to much lower. However, this depends on which 30 basis is used. The one currently used IIRC includes the “worrying about global cooling” decade, but not the “warmest year, decade, etc in the millenium” decade. So, having it just above normal for them is probably correct. I can tell you we have not had such cool weather since those “global cooling” times. Our AC bill indicates as such, as does energy use in processes that love heat (more expensive this June).
Years without a summer is what they call normal, and it is what they believe the earth ought to return to.
Well I say no thanks.
Warming please come back!
I see that NOAA started to use whole 20th century as a baseline, starting at 1895, e.g. into the Little ice Age..
NOAA,
Yeah right, like they can calculate an average temperature.
I’d hate to see a cool June.
Ask the New Zealanders or South Americans about the current weather. Cold anomalies sprouting all over. What global warming are we on about then?
“Average” here is so meaningless, when it has clearly been well above average in some parts of the country, and well below average in other parts. I also do not put much stock in data for a single month, except when it is presented in a time series format where I can see how it relates to the recent past, and longer back in time.
Here, from the same basic source as Anthony’s, is a map showing how temps have fared over the past 12 months:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2009/jun/07_06_2009_DvTempRank_pg.gif
So June isn’t a fluke in having lots of colder than average locations. Warmer than average, for the last year, has been pretty much limited to the Southwest. Which is pretty much to be expected — a warm and dry Southwest — from a La Nina.
What I’d like to see discussed is how all this cool weather in the US is related to the recent La Nina. From this map
http://www.beloblog.com/KVUE_Blogs/weatherblog/La_Nina_regional_impacts.gif
it looks to me like the cooler weather penetrated much further south and east than in a normal La Nina. So, does that just mean that the recent La Nina was a bit abnormal in this respect, or has something else been driving the recent below normal temperatures reflected on the first map I linked to?
James (08:19:11) :
they can’t move the green as that would eliminate the reds from the map. we can’t have the great unwashed thinking that our scaremongering is just that now can we?
NOAA genda here.
http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2169
Austin,
They have it on the same site.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2009/may/global.html#temp
Is the latest. It looks like it’s hotter, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere.
We’ve finally had some sunshine here in eastern Massachusetts (practically none in June!), but it’s almost mid-July, and the temps stubbornly refuse to climb out of the 70s, and the nights are positively cold. I’m still waiting for summer.
The grass is doing well, though. Good thing we never built the swimming pool.
/Mr Lynn
Interesting that NOAA has to admit “something” about the cold weather these past few years, so – as noted above – they try to compare 2009’s “cooler” weather against the entire past century! Then only can come with a weaselly “Today’s temperatures are average” announcement.
This is on line with their constant “xxth warmest ever” press releases.
But saying (confirming) that actual global temperatures have actually increased by “nothing point nothing” ever since Al Gore declared the imminent crisis of global warming?
Actually saying that worldwide temepratures are likely to keep cooling off through the next twenty years as part of an AMO cycle? Nah.
I see that NOAA started to use whole 20th century as a baseline, starting at 1895, e.g. into the Little ice Age..
1894 is when the US. Weather Bureau started with official stations spread across the country.
A lot of records went missing, unfortunately. Before that, there were a lot of ‘volunteer’ observers who kept records, and where they went, nobody knows.
Much like the historical sunspot observations, a lot of very dedicated people took readings daily. If all the data were gathered up, the picture would be quite different.
Things ought to get rather interesting with the onset of El Nino. Will we see an El Nino event similar the ones between 2001 and 2007 (elevated MEI numbers through most of those years)? Will the event mirror the May 2006 to Jan 2007 event (short and weak), or will it be more robust? Will this El Nino cause elevated global temps, or will it be more benign? El Ninos don’t always produce the climate anomalies. The Winters of 1976-1977 and 1977-1978 were some of the coldest and snowiest for North America, and they followed the moderate to strong El Nino of 1975-1976 (The year of the Great Pacific Climate Shift). However, those 2 summers were scorchers for North America.
Should be very interesting.
Where’s the global warming?
It makes no sense to me. I live in central Maryland and it has been very cool, I have not used my A/C in a month. But the cartoon shows yellow with is 0-+2. I don’t see how that can be.
U.S. Temperature and Precipitation Near-Average for Jun (Baltimore Sun)
June 2009 had the fewest 90+ days (zero) since 1979. That’s only happened six times since they began keeping official records for the city – in 1886, 1903, 1916, 1972, 1979 and 2009. The average number of 90+ degree days in June in Baltimore is 5.7. Last year we had nine. The record is 18, in 1943.
If one uses the average going back to 1895 and this past June was only fractionally above it then one should bear in mind that the whole of the 20th Century was a warming phase with a short pause in the middle.
What that report is really saying is that the June temperatures represent the complete reversal of ALL the late 20th century warming and a return to temperatures that were normal before WW2.
Of course they can’t put it quite like that so they manipulate the base line and give a false impression that the warming of the late 20th Century is still significant.