Note that the original October report on WUWT from a press release issued accidentally by UAH is superseded by this report. – Anthony
UAH v5.6 Global Temperature Update for October, 2013: +0.29 deg. C
By Dr. Roy Spencer
We finally received the missing NOAA-19 and Metop2 AMSU data from NESDIS, resulting from the government shutdown, covering the first half of October. For some reason we got all of the NOAA-15 and NOAA-18 data, but the other two satellite feeds were stopped.
So, the numbers below supersede the UAH October temperature press release, which was sent out by accident. (The global anomaly map for October was approximately correct, though, because it was based upon the 2 satellites which had complete data coverage for the month).
The Version 5.6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for October, 2013 is +0.29 deg. C (click for larger version):
The global, hemispheric, and tropical LT anomalies from the 30-year (1981-2010) average for the last 10 months are:
YR MON GLOBAL NH SH TROPICS
2013 01 +0.496 +0.512 +0.481 +0.387
2013 02 +0.203 +0.372 +0.033 +0.195
2013 03 +0.200 +0.333 +0.067 +0.243
2013 04 +0.114 +0.128 +0.101 +0.165
2013 05 +0.082 +0.180 -0.015 +0.112
2013 06 +0.295 +0.335 +0.255 +0.220
2013 07 +0.173 +0.134 +0.211 +0.074
2013 08 +0.158 +0.111 +0.206 +0.009
2013 09 +0.365 +0.339 +0.390 +0.189
2013 10 +0.290 +0.329 +0.250 +0.032
Popular monthly data files:
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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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 @ur momisugly 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.
beng says:
November 13, 2013 at 6:07 am
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Theo, Eustace Cranch, I lived in & near Blacksburg for over 20 yrs until ~2000.
First yr @ur momisugly 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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’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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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.
beng,
Did that Impala happen to have a Positraction differential?
It certainly had al least a couple of “youts” in it!
His response could be:
October 2013 Land surface temperatures. Looks to be well below average globally and especially in the northern hemisphere.
http://s14.postimg.org/g4mnktrj5/October_2013_Land.jpg
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brians356 says:
November 13, 2013 at 8:32 am
beng,
Did that Impala happen to have a Positraction differential?
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It had a 2-speed auto transmission they called a “hydromatic” transmission. I think that was just a fancy name. I’m sure it had a standard differential — I can certainly remember instances that one rear wheel spun & the other didn’t. Best it had going for it in snow (especially uphill) was heavy weight — listed as 4400 lbs. Sold it w/200k miles — never needed any engine repairs — a 283 V8 4-barrel.
beng,
Your two-speed auto would have been a PowerGlide. Very common in that era. My parents had a ’60 Bel Air with one. Very popular tranny, with modifications, on the drag strip. They even used it in Top Fuel machines.
I had a ’54 GMC pickup truck with a Hydra-Matic, which was an older, much heavier 4-speed transmission, deployed in big cars like Cadillacs and even in military light tanks.