UAH October temperatures, part 2

Does someone know why UAH gives their numbers to 3 significant figures in their blog posts, but only 2 on their data page?
And how does RSS publish 3 significant figures when UAH can only publish 2?

Move that zero (normal??) line up 2/10th of a degree….and you have no anomaly at all

The “popular monthly data files” only go to Sept …

Can we talk about the weather we are experiencing today, here in the USA? This is the earliest severe cold snap that I have experienced. Here in SW Virginia, we are dropping about 20 degrees in about 6 to 8 hours. I have seen this sort of thing in St. Louis, but rarely earlier than Thanksgiving. And the cold snap seems to cover most of the US. Amazing.

brians356 says:
November 12, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Yes, it is priceless! – but the real advantage of the fast drop is that it completely negates the fast rise – I don’t mean in the direct countering of the temperature rise sense. I mean in the perfect demonstration of how an uptick and a corresponding roughly ‘equal’ downtick shows that both are most probably due to natural causes. This large up and down movement (irrespective of the various ‘adjustments’, or where they decide to put the ‘zero anomaly line’) almost perfectly RULES OUT CO2 as the major cause of either the uptick OR the downtick. In a way, for us skeptics, it is indeed priceless, because they cannot hide it (all the adjustments have brought terrible scrutiny on the ‘data’ nowadays!), and if it was currently the same as per the early half of 20th century, merrily bumping along, up and down in small cycles, they could have continued the scam for quite some time.
As it is, the large up and down movement clearly destroys a direct majority link to CO2 and also fully demonstrates that there can be (as we know full well anyway, just from history!) significant climatic temperature changes WITHOUT human intervention at all. Even better, the slight upward trend, begun even before the modern CO2 measurements probably still reflects the LIA recovery?
They cannot even argue that the uptick is unprecedented, i.e. has been exacerbated by CO2, because even the ‘adjusted’ early data shows similar sizes of up/down changes (and of course, if CO2 GHG effect is logarithmic, the earlier up/down changes would likely have been larger?)

Kev-in-Uk,
Of course, a warmista will be tempted to say “But, but … that’s localized only to a tiny patch of the planet, and does imply anything about global temperature!” Well, if that’s true, then we can trot out the same retort when we hear “Aha! Warmest temperature ever recorded in Dismal Drain, Iowa! More proof of global warming.” After all, Occam’s Razor (as it were) cuts both ways.

Dr Spencer, No scientist should have to put up with the deplorable treatment you got on CNN. Thanks for taking on such a thankless task.

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Theo Goodwin says:
November 12, 2013 at 12:25 pm
Can we talk about the weather we are experiencing today, here in the USA? This is the earliest severe cold snap that I have experienced. Here in SW Virginia, we are dropping about 20 degrees in about 6 to 8 hours.
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Theo, Eustace Cranch, I lived in & near Blacksburg for over 20 yrs until ~2000.
First yr @ VA Tech, fall 1977, there was a 3-4″ wet snowstorm around Oct 6th that did a considerable amount of tree damage as the leaves were still on them. To the north near Lexington, VA there was as much as a foot and severe forest damage.

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Eustace Cranch says:
November 13, 2013 at 6:42 am
’77 was my second year at Tech. And I’m sure you remember the following January- the Great Blizzard of ’78 that closed the school.
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Certainly. I remember the temp hovered around 10F the whole time it snowed. And my old ’61 Chevy Impala convertible was one of the few vehicles (because of its heavy weight & snow-tires) that could get up out of the apartment complex after it was semi-plowed. So the next day when classes reopened I hauled a bunch of people to class.