A few days ago I highlighted the drop in global temperatures as measured by satellite from UAH, the University of Alabama, Huntsville. They published their satellite derived Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit data set of the Lower Troposphere for May 2008 and it showed that it is significantly colder globally, colder even than the significant drop to -0.046°C seen in January 2008.
The global ∆T for UAH from April to May 2008 was -.195°C
RSS (Remote Sensing Systems of Santa Rosa, CA) RSS Microwave Sounder Unit (MSU) lower troposphere global temperature anomaly data by For May 2008 is published and has moved below the zero anomaly line, with a value of -0.083°C for a change (∆T) of -0.163 °C globally from April 2008.
RSS
2008 1 -0.070
2008 2 -0.002
2008 3 0.079
2008 4 0.080
2008 5 -0.083
I had predicted when I posted the UAH data that the RSS value for global temperature anomaly for the lower troposphere would end up around 0.05 to -0.15°C. Coming in at -0.083°C, I was on target.
This value is greater in magnitude than the drop seen in January 2008 to -0.07°C
click for a larger image
Reference: RSS data here (RSS Data Version 3.1)
The GISS May figure has been released. As expected it does not show the size of drop in the UAH and RSS figures, but it is 0.36, down from 0.41 last month, so there is a drop of 0.05.
The spring average, with the March figure again reduced a little to 0.58, is the lowest since 2001, as is the moving 12 month average.
Let us face the facts about this
It is a seriously negative leading indicator.
Many will try to spin it otherwise.
Ironically, the AGW fanatics are strange breed of optimist. They deny the fact that the warm times are the best of times, and, in the grand swathe of history, are rare. All the other times are cruel and dark.
Such is life, in this universe we are given. It is what it is.
Snow advisory for all of Wallowa County tonight. Accumulations of up to 8 inches in the higher mountains with snow showers down to the 4000 foot elevation. The valley floor is about 3600 ft. Campers are warned to be prepared to snow camp. Several higher camp sites are still closed due to snow drifts and snow slides still blocking roads.
It is telling that we didn’t get run-off flooding. The higher elevation temps have been too cold to result in rapid spring snow melt of any degree. In the mid 70’s I was caught in a mud slide which was the result of warm spring downpours after heavy snow accumulations. We stayed in the house while the mud slid around us. You could hear the boulders in the mud hit the house with a thud then scrape along the outside as they crawled their way down the hill and around the house to the road. I’m glad all that snow is staying in the mountains.
Snow Advisory hell!!!! We have blizzard conditions at pass levels (most are at 4000 ft rounded up or down) and it is witch tit cold in Pendleton, Oregon. Access to Wallowa County through all four routes shows winter driving conditions. Thank God my snow tires are here in Pendleton instead of at the ranch. For a camera view check out tripcheck.com and click on the NE corner of the map. Those blue dots indicate snow building up on the road.
Anthony, I am sorry to inform you that I now want to believe in GW. Please be warm. I believe, I believe, I believe.
Pam,
Still hot in Tucson. “A man who is warm cannot understand a woman who is cold”. That is true in at least a couple of ways.