Crickey! The year ain’t over yet mates. (h/t to Australian reader “Michael”)
Heh, you gotta love the headline. Of course when we keep finding climate stations like this one, which reads 5 degrees high and set new records, no wonder NOAA thinks we are headed for hotness.
Looking south: Note NOAA’s little “helper” – click
Even without the time warp, this news will be a tough sell in Australia, which has had a string of unusually cold weather records broken in the past weeks. For example Sydney just broke a 60 year old cold record.
Here’s the original press release from NOAA/NCDC posted below. How The Australian turned that into a whole year can only be explained by alarmism combined with shoddy journalism. At year-end, the story may very well be different.
NOAA: June, April to June, and Year-to-Date Global Temperatures are Warmest on Record
July 15, 2010
Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the warmest June on record and the warmest on record averaged for any April-June and January-June periods, according to NOAA. Worldwide average land surface temperature was the warmest on record for June and the April-June period, and the second warmest on record for the year-to-date (January-June) period, behind 2007.
The monthly analysis from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, which is based on records going back to 1880, is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides government, business and community leaders so they can make informed decisions.
Global Temperature Highlights – June
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High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for June 2010 was the warmest on record at 61.1°F (16.2°C), which is 1.22°F (0.68°C) above the 20th century average of 59.9°F (15.5°C).
- The global June land surface temperature was 1.93°F (1.07°C) above the 20th century average of 55.9 °F (13.3°C) — the warmest on record.
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- Warmer-than-average conditions dominated the globe, with the most prominent warmth in Peru, the central and eastern contiguous U.S., and eastern and western Asia. Cooler-than-average regions included Scandinavia, southern China and the northwestern contiguous United States.
- According to Beijing Climate Center, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Jilin had their warmest June since national records began in 1951. Meanwhile, Guizhou experienced its coolest June on record.
- According to Spain’s meteorological office, the nationwide average temperature was 0.7°F (0.4°C) above normal, Spain’s coolest June since 1997.
- The worldwide ocean surface temperature was 0.97°F (0.54°C) above the 20th century average of 61.5°F (16.4°C), which was the fourth warmest June on record. The warmth was most pronounced in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Sea surface temperature continued to decrease across the equatorial Pacific Ocean during June 2010, consistent with the end of El Niño. According to NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, La Niña conditions are likely to develop during the northern hemisphere summer 2010.
High resolution (Credit: NOAA)
April – June 2010 and Year-to-Date
- The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for April-June 2010 was 1.26°F (0.70°C) above the 20th century average—the warmest April-June period on record.
- For the year-to-date, the global combined land and ocean surface temperature of 57.5°F (14.2°C) was the warmest January-June period. This value is 1.22°F (0.68°C) above the 20th century average.
Polar Sea Ice and Precipitation Highlights
- Arctic sea ice covered an average of 4.2 million square miles (10.9 million square kilometers) during June. This is 10.6 percent below the 1979-2000 average extent and the lowest June extent since records began in 1979. This was also the 19th consecutive June with below-average Arctic sea ice extent.
- Antarctic sea ice extent in June was above average, 8.3 percent above the 1979-2000 average—resulting in the largest June extent on record.
- China had near-average precipitation. Regionally, Guizhou, Fujian and Qinghai had above-average precipitation during June 2010, resulting in the second wettest June since national records began in 1951—according to Beijing Climate Center. Meanwhile, the province of Jiangsu had its driest June on record, while Shanxi had its second driest on record.
- According to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, the continent had its fourth-driest June on record.
- The first six months of 2010 were the driest since 1929 for the United Kingdom, according to the UK Met Office. The average rainfall during January-June 2010 was 14.3 inches (362.5 mm), just 3.4 inches (86.8 mm) above January-June 1929. The January-June long-term average is 20.1 inches (511.7 mm).
Scientists, researchers and leaders in government and industry use NOAA’s monthly reports to help track trends and other changes in the world’s climate. This climate service has a wide range of practical uses, from helping farmers know what and when to plant, to guiding resource managers with critical decisions about water, energy and other vital assets.
Scientists, researchers and leaders in government and industry use NOAA’s monthly reports to help track trends and other changes in the world’s climate. This climate service has a wide range of practical uses, from helping farmers know what and when to plant, to guiding resource managers with critical decisions about water, energy and other vital assets.
Additional Information
June 2010 Global State of the Climate – Supplemental Figures & Information
NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the oceans to surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.
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Or is it they are divine and to them”a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is but a day”. Works wonders for trends.
They say “This climate service has a wide range of practical uses, from helping farmers know what and when to plant,”
I am a farmer but I do not rely on climate service advice (In NZ it is NIWA or the Met service) to decide when to plant. They could not make an accurate prediction more than 5 days out. The decision when to plant is made based on local knowledge. For example, I try to plant my early turnips (about 15 acres for cattle feed), on the 10th of October and my late ones by the 20th. The claim that farmers use their data is very suspicious. People who live in cities might find the claim believable.
They also say it is for ” guiding resource managers with critical decisions about water, energy and other vital assets.”
So they build unnecessary desalination plants based on this advice.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/industry-sectors/switch-off-desal-say-water-utilities/story-e6frg97o-1225889565533
How much money does this service cost? I suspect nobody actually relies on their advice.
This isn’t weather which has to be over thirty years, not six months. It’s only climate!
Oh wait! I got something wrong there……
Worse than we thunk.
Is anyone else getting tired of this same old crap, on the same old bat channel on a different day?
Sometimes I can’t even look at the news and happenings related to science and ACGW because it’s the same crap over and over and over and over.
And they wonder why Chris is starting to kick some butt, I’m sure he’s as tired of this garbage as we are, and a whole lot more out in the wind than we are and taking more flack than we are.
The only time in my life that I wish I was someone famous. Not for the glory but to counteract the crap coming from hollywood and Gore and others.
Strange, The Australian is one of the few newspapers here not in the alarmist camp. But it is Friday………..
John Gorter
Well it is the Australian so what can you expect. And the numpty PM we seem to have been landed with is intent on inserting her monster carbon tax so the Aus and its like will be right behind her.
Reading anything put out by NOAA has all the morbid fascination of checking out a car wreck — it’s an unholy mess that’ll never be made right. You just want to get away from that mess as quickly as possible where everything is clean, tidy, and rational.
UAH satellite measurements confirm second quarter temperatures for 2010 were unusually high, but this seems to have come to an abrupt halt in recent days:
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/
This is the hangover effect of the last El Nino, which has also abruptly disappeared.
It will be interesting to see how much global temperatures decline over the rest of the year and, of course, what happens to the Arctic ice in September.
In any event, second quarter 2010 emperature figures could be the last ‘good news’ our alarmist friends have for a very long time.
Unfortunately The Australian is probably the fairest media outlet we have here so it’s all steeply down hill from a low base.
John Gorter says:
July 15, 2010 at 11:18 pm
Strange, The Australian is one of the few newspapers here not in the alarmist camp. But it is Friday………..
Hey John, and we do have an election coming up, perhaps this is to help Julia over her recent embarrassments and show that the Australian has “balance” in its news reporting. But from where I see the issues it’s classic spin and misrepresentation to see if the average Australian voter will swallow those porkies, and that’s hard when the weather is well, “winter weather” cold and wet and likely to cause flooding.
Alternatively the Australian may be trying to provoke an adverse reaction from their readers by serving them up with such extreme spin. With already lots of complaints over rapidly rising electricity and gas bills and higher municipal and state taxes and rents hitting a broad spectrum of the community, I’m sure that Julia will be watching closely at the reactions of ordinary voters as she considers inflicting carbon taxes, under various guises.
More I think about it the more I smell political adjustments and jockeying for positions in the lead up to the election or postponing the election slightly to get the mix right. Anything is up for grabs in this one.
Well this post will cause great hilarity here in Australia. ‘The Australian’ is the chief organ of denial down under. Their opinion writers are all firmly in the News Limited libertarian conservative camp, so any science that might dovetail with a conservation agenda is undermined remorselessly. They cheerfully reprint the likes of Jonathon Leake from the ‘Sunday Mail’, and you’ll all be happy to know the astonishing climategate scandal got a thorough airing.
“How The Australian turned that into a whole year can only be explained by alarmism combined with shoddy journalism. ” Actually shoddy journalism is quite enough to explain the headline.
I like this too… “this news will be a tough sell in Australia, which has had a string of unusually cold weather records broken in the past weeks.” It’s not that tough a sell for people who understand the difference between global temperatures and global trends, and a few cold nights in Sydney (or the depth of the snow in your backyard in Washington state). Most of the posters here know it too, but you just like stirring the pot, don’t you guys?
And finally…”And they wonder why Chris is starting to kick some butt” from Brad. I don’t understand why WUWT has nailed its colours to Chris Monckton’s mast. I really don’t.
No one else agrees with NOAA about June’s rank. GISS has June at #3
Neither UAH nor RSS have June at #1. Had-Crut isn’t out yet.
It looks positively balmy in northern Canada!
I can assure the NOAA that its been very cold here down under this winter. We use a quaint old fashioned system here where the temperature is lower when it is cooler and higher when it is hot. Not sure what they use.
In ClimateSpeak when its the second coldest year its really the new 99th warmest year. I see there is no cold anymore, its more or less hot and that’s that.
[REPLY – Nice MMTS you got there, squire. Be a pity if something happened to it. A word to the wise — You, too, can be “adjusted”. So you’d better remember warmer if you get my drift . . . ~ Evan]
Years now end in June, huh?
Oh, got to, found a jingle that’s brash but fits this post perfectly.
Hurry, hurry, hurry alarmists
before the cooling can hit the fan,
your stories set down in infamy,
all the models tossed straight into the can!
Christchurch New Zealand. they had a great big red dot over us for June on their map but air temp here were avg not 2c above as the map says you can even check NIWA they say avg too.
Meanwhile in nearby New Zealand, temperatures have reached almost the coldest since records began.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10658655
Mercury plunges to record lows
4:00 AM Wednesday Jul 14, 2010
An extreme cold snap has broken temperature records and produced what are likely to be the country’s coldest nights this year.
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research said the past few days had seen some of the lowest temperatures on record.
Air temperatures in Taumarunui, in the central North Island, dipped to -6.8C this week, the coldest since records began in 1947.
Te Kuiti and Turangi had their coldest July nights on record, and in the South Island, Blenheim experienced its second-coldest July temperature yesterday morning.
Queenstown, at -7.2C, had its third coldest night in 139 years of records.
[REPLY – Fear not. In a month’s time you will have been warmer than you think. NIWA will no doubt just apply a few “adjustments” and fix you up in a jiffy. – Evan]
This caught my eye….
This is a big country, but in my backyard in west Canberra, the ground is drenched and our total rain to date this year is 347mm, in 2009 the corresponding period produced 194mm. Friends in nearby Hall say their dams have never been so full. July has been very wet, looking at rainfall for one month is meaningless, unless …….
More Australian MSM rubbish. Working from home today notice an ad on TV directed at children. It advertising a game called “Footprints”, to save the planet. Well I think I’ll let you use your own imagingation as to what it is all about.
It is election year, Gillard is strangely “the most popular and trusted PM”, and she’s only been in the job a few weeks. Me smells a rat.
It is also the first time I can vote in Australia, problem is, none of the major parties offer anything. They are all behind CAGW and putting a price on carbon, to save the planet, and, effectively, exporting wealth overseas.
An interesting few weeks ahead.
“NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, from the depths of the oceans to surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources.”
I find that statement completely unbelievable in a “scientific” organisation. This is nothing short of claiming absolute omnipotence. Hubris and arrogance obviously outweigh truth and scientific evidence in this organisation.
Obviously they need no further research investment. I would suggest the cutting off of their budget immediately, I’m sure the money can be better spent elsewhere.
Warmest ever, or just largest computed anomalies ever?
Funny how the localized weather services of northern europe, including russia, data seem to be lower than NOAAs by as much as up to two degrees.
Correction: the term is Crikey (KrYKY), translation fer christ’s sake.
Continue.
OT but D Archibald right on track for SSN 40
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/sunspot.gif
The rest as usual way off
I have lived in Brisbane Aus for 36 years. For many years I never even owned a heater. When I have used one it has been for a day or two, mainly in August and for never more than a total of 14 days in a year. This year I have two heaters and used them for the last two months almost every night. Yes! a hard sell indeed. I keep reminding myself that climate is not weather.
Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the warmest June on record
Not according to UAH satellite data.
http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt74/MartinGAtkins/UAH-Jun.jpg
and the warmest on record averaged for any April-June
UAH says no.
http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt74/MartinGAtkins/UAH-Apr-Jun.jpg
and January-June periods,
Sorry NCDC wins no fluffy toy here either.
http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/tt74/MartinGAtkins/Jan-Jun-UAH-1.jpg
NOAA knows how to cherry pick and distort data in the from the depths of the oceans to surface of the sun.