As La Niña fades, this is not surprising. Dr. Roy Spencer is back at work and reports the new lower troposphere number. Note also the global sea surface temperature graph below, which is quite interesting. I’m sure Bob Tisdale will be interested. – Anthony
UAH Temperature Update for April, 2011: +0.12 deg. C
YR MON GLOBAL NH SH TROPICS
2010 01 0.542 0.675 0.410 0.635
2010 02 0.510 0.553 0.466 0.759
2010 03 0.554 0.665 0.443 0.721
2010 04 0.400 0.606 0.193 0.633
2010 05 0.454 0.642 0.265 0.706
2010 06 0.385 0.482 0.287 0.485
2010 07 0.419 0.558 0.280 0.370
2010 08 0.441 0.579 0.304 0.321
2010 09 0.477 0.410 0.545 0.237
2010 10 0.306 0.257 0.356 0.106
2010 11 0.273 0.372 0.173 -0.117
2010 12 0.181 0.217 0.145 -0.222
2011 01 -0.010 -0.055 0.036 -0.372
2011 02 -0.020 -0.042 0.002 -0.348
2011 03 -0.101 -0.073 -0.128 -0.342
2011 04 0.120 0.199 0.042 -0.229
NEW! Monthly UAH temperature reports and global images.
La Nina Fades
The global average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly for April 2011 jumped up to +0.12 deg. C, further evidence that La Nina is fading.
I have also updated the global sea surface temperature anomaly from AMSR-E through yesterday, May 9 (note that the base period is different, so the zero line is different than for the lower tropospheric temperature plot above):
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I expect this would not galvanize the AGW camp.
OT, but exactly two months have passed since 3.11, and the current status is as follows:
Killed by quake/tsunami: 14,949
Still missing: 9,880
Refugees: 70,689 (quake/tsunami) + 59,020 (evacuated from r = 20 km of nuke site)
The values I’ve been seeing so far in May have been pretty close to 0 also. Too bad it doesn’t look like it’s going as low as it did last time. But I still that with all this runaway warming we’ve supposedly had it’s amazing we could still go negative at all! 🙂
Finally got some warm weather in Minnesota 2 days ago. Longest damn March I’ve ever gone through!!!
Oh My God .12 degrees too warm we are all going to die.
Sobering numbers, Tokyoboy. It tears at the heart to think what Japan is going through.
tokyoboy, are there any figures on deaths resulting from the nuclear facility accident(s)?
Interesting… but if we flip to el nino, temps go up and the AGW types will bang their drums about it. I’m hoping we don’t.
As an aside, I spend much of today watching the snow; it came down hard: I had several inches. I live in Arizona and it’s mid May and I’m getting snow… ?!!?!?
Something puzzles me about these numbers. From February to March, both RSS and UAH went DOWN 0.08 C. However from March to April, RSS went UP 0.14, but UAH went UP 0.22. As we all know, a severe tornado hit Alabama at the end of April. Is it possible the missing days were interpolated wrongly?
Record-high temperature in Chicago today (90ºF), the old record for this date – 89ºF – was set back in 1896. It was warmer in Chicago than Miami, FL.
Guess we are all gonna die. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Eric Anderson says: May 10, 2011 at 8:13 pm
“tokyoboy, are there any figures on deaths resulting from the nuclear facility accident(s)?”
As of today, three workers were killed and two are missing (interior inspection is still hampered by the high level radioacticity).
September 2010 was the warmest UAH September. Yet this occurred five months after El Nino ended and we were well into La Nina territory. If a similar lag holds this time, I would expect future drops for several more months. That assumes other things are not happening to counteract this, which may well be the case.
Ranger Rick says: “Finally got some warm weather in Minnesota 2 days ago. Longest damn March I’ve ever gone through!!!”
Our furnace came on last night. First time ever for May, here.
Re: Josh May 10, 2011 at 6:34 pm
“The values I’ve been seeing so far in May have been pretty close to 0 also. Too bad it doesn’t look like it’s going as low as it did last time. But I still that with all this runaway warming we’ve supposedly had it’s amazing we could still go negative at all! :)”
Actually, had Dr. Spencer not gone to a new base period several months ago, it’s entirely possible we might NOT have gone negative this time around. I don’t know the exact difference between new and old because he added a couple adjustments into his calculations at the same time he made the switch.
Interestingly we have just had the warmest La Nina on record.
The drum is being pounded once again for an El Nino, but Joe Bastardi says “I don’t think so”. Joe is great listening, always informative…. and usually right in his predictions.
The AMO to go cold soon?
Downscope.
Interesting that solar activity is also up in April. Coincidence?
Big thanks to Roy Spencer for getting this out despite the tornado aftermath near his home. I expect the SST to fall again over the next months as SH winter bites. 12 months ago I predicted -0.3C on Roy’s metric before the end of the 2011.
I use the SOI and UAH data (not Dr Spencer’s) to calculate 12 month running means 6 months ahead: I still reckon we’ll get another 6 months of falling temperatures with a turn around in October at about +0.01. See http://kenskingdom.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/global-temperature-page-may-2011/
If not it’s back to the drawing board.
I had wondered about the delay. Of course- the tornadoes.
Arizona CJ says:
May 10, 2011 at 8:15 pm
I live in Arizona and it’s mid May and I’m getting snow… ?!!?!?
Yes, it’s is also a strange day downunder to see an up tick in the warming with pre-winter snow reported down around the 700m level:
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/news/coldest-may-day-in-more-than-a-decade-for-melbourne/17276
http://ski.com.au/snowcams/australia/vic/index.html
It’s not the quantity, it is the quality.
See you on the next 1001110001000 posts.
The sea surface temp is falling quite a bit currently take a look a at AMSU
Here is what Joe Bastardi has to say:
The Australian Federal Government’s recent budget included money to control climate. It’s working already. It’s snowing here today two months ahead of normal.
Eric Anderson, yes the number is ZERO
Could Joe B. have picked a weaker opponent in his duel? If there’s a betting pool, I want in!