Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade
January temperatures (preliminary)
Global composite temp.: +0.29 C (about 0.52 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for January.
Northern Hemisphere: +0.39 C (about 0.70 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for January.
Southern Hemisphere: +0.20 C (about 0.36 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for January.
Tropics: -0.03 C (about 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) below 30-year average for January.
December temperatures (revised):
Global Composite: +0.27 C above 30-year average
Northern Hemisphere: +0.27 C above 30-year average
Southern Hemisphere: +0.26 C above 30-year average
Tropics: +0.06 C above 30-year average
(All temperature anomalies are based on a 30-year average (1981-2010) for the month reported.)
Notes on data released Feb. 6, 2014:
Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest place on Earth in January was the upper peninsula of Michigan near Iron River, where temperatures were as much as 3.86 C (about 6.95 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than seasonal norms, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. This was part of a large area of cooler than normal temperatures that covered most of the eastern U.S. and Canada in January, stretching from just south of Hudson Bay through the Gulf of Mexico.
Generally, however, Earth’s atmosphere was warmer than normal in January, with the warmest spot over northeastern Greenland by the Arctic Ocean. Atmospheric temperatures there averaged 6.24 C (just over 11.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than seasonal norms for January.
Archived color maps of local temperature anomalies are available on-line at:
http://nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
As part of an ongoing joint project between UAHuntsville, NOAA and NASA, Christy and Dr. Roy Spencer, an ESSC principal scientist, use data gathered by advanced microwave sounding units on NOAA and NASA satellites to get accurate temperature readings for almost all regions of the Earth. This includes remote desert, ocean and rain forest areas where reliable climate data are not otherwise available.
The satellite-based instruments measure the temperature of the atmosphere from the surface up to an altitude of about eight kilometers above sea level. Once the monthly temperature data is collected and processed, it is placed in a “public” computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.
Neither Christy nor Spencer receives any research support or funding from oil, coal or industrial companies or organizations, or from any private or special interest groups. All of their climate research funding comes from federal and state grants or contracts.
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Dr. Roy Spencer writes:
UAH Global Temperature Update for January 2014: +0.29 deg. C
February 5th, 2014
The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for January, 2014 is +0.29 deg. C, little changed from December (click for full size version):
The global, hemispheric, and tropical LT anomalies from the 30-year (1981-2010) average for the last 13 months are:
YR MON GLOBAL NH SH TROPICS
2013 1 +0.497 +0.517 +0.478 +0.386
2013 2 +0.203 +0.372 +0.033 +0.195
2013 3 +0.200 +0.333 +0.067 +0.243
2013 4 +0.114 +0.128 +0.101 +0.165
2013 5 +0.082 +0.180 -0.015 +0.112
2013 6 +0.295 +0.335 +0.255 +0.220
2013 7 +0.173 +0.134 +0.211 +0.074
2013 8 +0.158 +0.111 +0.206 +0.009
2013 9 +0.365 +0.339 +0.390 +0.190
2013 10 +0.290 +0.331 +0.249 +0.031
2013 11 +0.193 +0.160 +0.226 +0.020
2013 12 +0.266 +0.272 +0.260 +0.057
2014 1 +0.291 +0.386 +0.196 -0.027
The global image for January should be available in the next day or so here.
Popular monthly data files (these might take a few days to update):
uahncdc_lt_5.6.txt (Lower Troposphere)
uahncdc_mt_5.6.txt (Mid-Troposphere)
uahncdc_ls_5.6.txt (Lower Stratosphere)
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The loopy jet stream brought cold air down over Michigan and Siberia, and warm air up over Europe and Alaska, and the map simply reflects those loops. Dr.Spencer is merely telling it like it is.
I’d actually prefer a zonal pattern, that traps the cold up where it can do little harm. Having the cold come down and freeze up the Great Lakes will give me a cold spring, as I live downwind of those lakes. Also having heat transported up to the Pole seems likely to lose it to outer space, in the sunless arctic winter. I wish the heat would just stay down at my latitude.
However I suppose that is selfish of me. The poor of Europe got a break from the foolish energy policies that doubled their cost of staying warm, (except for the British Isles, which just got wet gale after wet gale,)
Tropics were consistently less than other readings. Any reasons or theories?
As a native Michigander, I am not surprised!
So all that extra ‘heat’ up north and over Alaska was caused by high pressure areas and the air that descends and then warms out of them?
Interesting…
What happened to all that energy from when the air compressed?
“Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest place on Earth in January was the upper peninsula of Michigan near Iron River, where temperatures were as much as 3.86 C (about 6.95 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than seasonal norms.”
The Accuweather February forecast for Wichita, KS is -8.9 deg F. So far this month it’s minus 13.3 deg F.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/wichita-ks/67201/february-weather/29328_pc?monyr=2/1/2014
I was in the UP (Upper Peninsula) for three weeks in January. Coldest I’ve been in the 45 years since I left!
That’s a very misleading headline – just sayin’. I guess we’re supposed to take if for granted that the scare quotes mean “Not really”.
What to make of this:
If the low point between 1984 & 1985 is connected to January 2014, the line slopes up.
If the high point at 1988 is connected to January 2014, the line has no slope.
If the high of 1998 is connected, the slope is down.
On the other hand, all of the lower 48 States are cold. Miami is the only major city listed on the intellicast map that is warm. Let’s all go there.
Indeed … not only colder but snowier this year as well … so far this season in Buffalo, snowfall total comes to 90″ (ave to date is 65″).
And here it’s just the first week of February … another 5″ of snow and we’ll have hit an entire average season’s snowfall … it just keeps on coming and coming … if the rest of the season delivers only an average snowfall we’ll end up with 120″ (or 10′) of snow for the season.
I’m more than ready for spring …
@Caleb, I just visited your post giving detailed continuing reports on the Arctic: http://sunriseswansong.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/arctic-sea-ice-recovery-the-viewless-viewers-views/
If you keep doing your daily Arctic reports all the way through the Summer and Fall, what’ll be really interesting … and significant … will be whether the Arctic continues a new trend of increasing the summer minimum ice level each year.
What the headline’s ‘coldest’ was trying to convey was ‘coldest than normal’. That is, UM had the lowest anomaly.
Looking at all the COLA anomaly maps to date I’m surmising that February 2014 will hit a minus value. This is especially valid when ALL of RUSSIA, ASIA including China and INdia, NORTH AMERICA and MIDDLE EAST are ALL showing pretty extreme BELOW anomalies to date, The SH is generally neutral, South America, Africa and Australia (half cold half hot etc…)
COLA maps here
http://wxmaps.org/pix/clim.html
Hit temperature for each continent real easy….
Sorry about your cold spells, USA folk, but spare a thought for the Uk, the jet stream has steered so many low pressure storms over us that we are drowning and ancient sea defences are crumbling. Greeny capture of the Environment Agency and the Dept of environment has added to the problem. It may not be cold but… glug glug bubble bubble
Just to see. Polar vortex height 15 Zone ozone.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/70hPa/orthographic=35.11,99.16,365
This is the result of solar activity in the the zone of the ozone.
keith at hastings uk says: @ur momisugly February 6, 2014 at 12:16 pm
Sorry about your cold spells, USA folk, but spare a thought for the Uk, the jet stream has steered so many low pressure storms over us that we are drowning…
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Welcome to Steve Wilde’s, Wild world of Loopy Jets and Loopy weather.
HMMMmmmm Seems things haven’t changed that much.
The tropics has found its temperature. It is roughly the same no matter the concentration of CO2. The tropics has a strong temperature regulator called thunderstorms, and they start when the conditions are right and this phenomenon is the thermostat for the whole earth.
However I suppose that is selfish of me. The poor of Europe got a break from the foolish energy policies that doubled their cost of staying warm, (except for the British Isles, which just got wet gale after wet gale,)
In Poor europe we are getting poorer. Don’t be fooled by recent headlines of co² target reductions. It simply isn’t true. Next year, in France we will all be forced to pay an eco-tax on energy which amounts to 8.5cents on a litre of diesel and a little less on heating oil and we already have had an increase, this year, of the VAT on energy. Unlike other parts of europe in france we pay VAT (20%) on all energy. Next year the EU will begin it’s roll out of E10 fuel for cars and lorrys which contains a much higher % of bio fuel. This has been shown to damage the modern engines which were specifically designed to meet the EU demands on fuel economy.
The EU economy will crash with a big bang in the next 3 – 5 years.
Eliza, nice source. Thanks.
Stephen Richards, yet France will feel the sun’s activity, when the polar vortex is placed over Greenland.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_t100_nh_f240.gif
So if I’m reading those tables correctly, the global year-over-year temperature dropped 0.2oF compared to last January, yes?
So I wonder what connection to the Magnetosphere looks like at this time. Has the polar vortex (Magnetosphere footprints) moved down to or near Michigan??
Yep. Looking at Rens post the earth rotated Michigan right underneath a finger of the vortex.
Sorry, NH = +0.386
Does not match reality.
brantc mówi:
06 lutego 2014 na 13:18
Zastanawiam się, co tak Podłączenie do magnetosfery wygląda w tej chwili. Czy wir polarny (magnetosfery ślady) przesunęła się w dół lub w pobliżu Michigan?
Now it is so. Save link.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_t100_nh_f00.gif
Sorry for the mistake.