Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.11 C per decade
July temperatures (preliminary)
Global composite temp.: +0.18 C (about 0.32 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.
Northern Hemisphere: +0.33 C (about 0.60 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.
Southern Hemisphere: +0.03 C (about 0.05 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.
Tropics: +0.48 C (about 0.86 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for July.
June temperatures (revised):
Global Composite: +0.33 C above 30-year average
Northern Hemisphere: +0.41 C above 30-year average
Southern Hemisphere: +0.25 C below 30-year average
Tropics: +0.46 C above 30-year average
(All temperature anomalies are based on a 30-year average (1981-2010) for
the month reported.)
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July, 2015 is +0.18 deg. C, down considerably from the June, 2015 value of +0.33 deg. C (click for full size version):
The global, hemispheric, and tropical LT anomalies from the 30-year (1981-2010) average for the last 7 months are:
YR MO GLOBE NH SH TROPICS
2015 1 +0.28 +0.40 +0.16 +0.13
2015 2 +0.18 +0.30 +0.05 -0.06
2015 3 +0.17 +0.26 +0.07 +0.05
2015 4 +0.09 +0.18 -0.01 +0.10
2015 5 +0.29 +0.36 +0.21 +0.28
2015 6 +0.33 +0.41 +0.25 +0.46
2015 7 +0.18 +0.33 +0.03 +0.48
Strong July cooling occurred in the Southern Hemisphere extratropics, with a weak drop in the Northern Hemisphere extratropics. The tropics continue to warm with El Nino conditions there.
The global image for July, 2015 should be available in the next several dayshere.
The new Version 6 files (use the ones labeled “beta2″) should be updated soon, and are located here:
Lower Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tlt
Mid-Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tmt
Tropopause: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/ttp
Lower Stratosphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tls
Notes on data released Aug. 12, 2015:
The tropics continued to warm in July, although the areas between the tropics and both the Arctic and Antarctic regions cooled from June, said Dr. John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Compared to seasonal norms, the warmest average temperature anomaly on Earth in July was in southeastern Kazakhstan near the city of Almaty. The July temperature there averaged 3.33 C (about 6.0 degrees F) warmer than seasonal norms. Compared to seasonal norms, the coolest average temperature on Earth in July was in the northern Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern coast of Greenland, where the average July 2015 temperature was 3.77 C (about 6.77 degrees F) cooler than normal.
The complete version 6 beta lower troposphere dataset is available here:
http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0beta2
Archived color maps of local temperature anomalies are available on-line at:
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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Who cares about temperatures at an altitude of 4000 m? A few persons living in the Andes or Himalaya? The rest of us (seven billion plus) are below.
If the surface is warming, it has zero to do with GHGs. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/08/13/uah-global-temperature-report-july-2015-the-pause-continues/#comment-2006993
If we do not care about the atmosphere, then why is the warmista meme all about supposed “global warming”?
Why should anyone care about the pokes, or the oceans? How many live in the ocean or at the poles?
Answer: Less than live in mountains.
Nobody said anything about my query (regarding temperatures at the altitude where we actually live), I may have a point.
As a second and separate response, we should care because the whole myth is based on models which show that CO2 will cause warming. And the models show, and the basic theory demands, that the atmosphere warms, not just the surface.
So lack of tropospheric warming is a direct and complete refutation of the entire idea of CAGW.
That is why.
Do you have a thermometer at your house François?
What does it say to the nearest 0.1°C?
Do you need to wear spectacles to get a reading to that level of accuracy François?
How does it compare to the temperature you took at the same time and the same place in 1998?
Do you have a barometric altimeter at your house François?
At what altitude do you live?
What adjustment factor and homogenisation algorithm do you usually apply to get your final reading?
Does that help?
Thanks, Anthony.
I’ll get the UAH July ’15 temperatures map ready for publication in my climate and meteorology pages, as soon as UAH updates http://nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
Answering “Sceptical Sam”. I had a question. Insults do not help. I am not an epsilon semi-moron, you?
François, I appreciate that you had a question.
My comment was not designed to offend you, but to stimulate you to think and research for yourself the answer to your question.
When you do so you will hopefully see that a 0.74 C° ± 0.16 C° rise in the global average temperature over 100 years is not a change that you or your cat would even notice. Try it. Turn your thermostat up 0.74 C°.
Can you? Does it have that level of adjustment on its scale? Do you notice the difference?
For example today where I live the temperature range was 11.00 C°. It’s Winter. I put a shirt on over my “T”shirt at 5:00pm, and slipped on a light woollen jumper at 8:00pm.
Nobody – especially me – is saying you are an epsilon semi-moron, whatever that is. If you start to think for yourself you will soon understand that you and the rest of us are being fed a massive lie. A massive green socialist authoritarian lie by people who have an agenda that’s related to their quest for power, control and money.
I downloaded data from this source:
“Lower Troposphere: http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0beta/tlt”
But I can’t interpret the data. Per month there are 10 368 elements. What grid is used? The temperature are obviously anomalies. I think the instruments are measuring temperatures. Where can I find the temperatures measured?
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/14/3691940/hottest-july-hottest-year-record/
Contrary to the nonsense reported by http://wattsupwiththat.com, 2014 was the hottest year on record and 2015 is almost a sure bet to top that. The uneven climb in global temperatures continues and it is still on the middle track estimated over 25 years ago. Pause, what nonsense!
Planet Earth to Dennis Mueller:
No, 2014 was not the “hottest year evah!!” Even the IPCC admits to the “Pause” (global T has not risen in almost twenty years).
You are getting spoon-fed misinformation from pseudo-science blogs like the one you linked to. They are supporting a political narrative; they’re not being scientific at all.
Instead, follow satellite data — the most accurate global temperature measurements we have:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1997/plot/rss/from:1997./trend
You can see that 2014 isn’t even close to being the “hottest evah!”
Really, it is amazing to see some folks cherry-pick whatever factoid/assertion fits their confirmation bias, and reject everything else.
They’ve got you believing a Chicken Little story. Only you can change that.