Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.13 C per decade
March temperatures (preliminary)
Global composite temp.: +0.24 C (about 0.43 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.
Northern Hemisphere: +0.39 C (about 0.70 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.
Southern Hemisphere: +0.10 C (about 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.
Tropics: +0.06 C (about 0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) above 30-year average for March.
February temperatures (revised):
Global Composite: +0.20 C above 30-year average
Northern Hemisphere: +0.24 C above 30-year average
Southern Hemisphere: +0.15 C above 30-year average
Tropics: +0.03 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 April 3, 2018:
Compared to seasonal norms, the coldest spot on the globe in March was in northwestern Russia, near the southern tip of Yuzhny Island. Temperatures there were 5.30 C (about 9.54 degrees Fahrenheit) cooler than seasonal norms.
Compared to seasonal norms, the warmest place on Earth in March was near the Buutsagaan district in Western Mongolia. Tropospheric temperatures there averaged 4.81 C (about 8.66 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than seasonal norms.
As part of an ongoing joint project between UAH, NOAA and NASA, Dr. John Christy, director of the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 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 are collected and processed, they are placed in a “public” computer file for immediate access by atmospheric scientists in the U.S. and abroad.
The complete version 6 lower troposphere dataset is available here:
http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txt
Archived color maps of local temperature anomalies are available on-line at:
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 adds at his blog:
The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2018 was +0.24 deg. C, up a little from the February value of +0.20 deg. C:
Note how the warming is over Africa, and not America. Did Africa suddenly start producing CO2? How does a uniform blanket of 400ppm cause such variation?
Magic
As people have said above, satellites just show air movement. The rest is bunkum.
Thank the Lord it’s still getting warmer…slightly, because I am freezing my ass off!!
Same here. We’re way below normal.
NOAA Data Tampering Approaching 2.5 Degrees
NOAA’s US temperature record shows that US was warmest in the 1930’s and has generally cooled as CO2 has increased. This wrecks greenhouse gas theory, so they “adjust” the data to make it look like the US is warming. https://realclimatescience.com/2018/03/noaa-data-tampering-approaching-2-5-degrees/
OT …the West Coast is going to get inundated over the next several days. A huge plume of moisture has been drawn north by a strong Hadley cell. My area is slated for 1+ inches tomorrow, and 2+ inches the next day. From the smell of the air the rain is close at hand as of now. There is snow on all of the surrounding mountains to the north of me. This rain is coming in warm. Rivers and streams are going to flow high on this one. Oroville dam may be tested, potentially. …https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=total_precipitable_water/orthographic=-123.22,34.02,1107
Climate is changing. Deserts will be blooming again in California.
The reservoirs in California are full.
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf
Measuring air temps to prove “retarded surface cooling” is this what everyone is up to at IPCC?
How awfully convenient od them to use data starting at a time of global temperature lows.
We have good data to compare to gor many years orior to 1979 do why are they not using it.
(ckoud, that’s when the satellite record began)…
(sorry ’bout dat cloud, brand new tablet)…
UAH TLT v6 continues to run much cooler than RSS TLT v4, despite both using data from the same satellites. The split seems to be centred around 2000.
Clearly at least one of these satellite data interpretations is wrong. In terms of overall trend since 1979, RSS is much closer to the surface data sets.
Make of it what you will.
What the charts do display clearly is that AGW should not have been on any .gov agency radar until somewhere post 2013.
(if two men say they’re jesus, one of them must be wrong)…
RSS replaces some of the satellite data with surface data or model data. It is no longer a satellite data set. It is now pure garbage. Sorry you are confused.
How did the greater hours of night over day effect surface temperatures with high pressure or low pressure changes in the atmosphere during winter?
An atmospheric river is approaching California, and the reservoirs are full.
http://pics.tinypic.pl/i/00962/ak0fhlmpqw0n.png
A question about the basis for the measurements – the Lower Troposphere from surface to approx 8km (airplane cruising height). Where do the satellites actually take the measurement from in this vertical range because at 8km it could be -60 deg c, at say 3km it could be -10 deg c and then the surface 8 deg c.
Is it an average of many measurements at different heights or from one uniform height globally? perhaps it is defined somewhere and I missed it.
We have learned some interesting terms recently one is “polar vortex” which seems to be associated with cold air being pushed from the arctic down to the gulf of Mexico which whips the Atlantic into a fury and sends huge storms across the Atlantic to flood the UK but the Sahara stays a bit cooler and as this is defined as being part of the Northern Hemisphere rather than the tropics pushes northern hemisphere down. We have learned about another term “Northern blocking ” where the passage of these huge storms towards the UK and further north are blocked so that we don’t get flooded and it even gets colder in the UK, Northern Blocking most often happens around or just after Solar Minimum so that that because The Sahara will get warmer during the next few years while the UK gets colder and dryer and I will just have to live with the “Northern Hemisphere” temperatures getting warmer because I am certain that “northern blocking” will continue over the next few years.
I can confirm that it has been unseasonably warm in Mongolia, thought not in January as readers will recall. It has been unusually windy, if that is an indicator of something.
On Saturday it was 0/17 C morning and afternoon. They are enjoying an early spring and grass is growing. It will be a good year for herders.
Meanwhile it snowed today in Waterloo which continues well below seasonal. That’s the split in the polar vortex having its go at Ontario.
But, I can’t complain about the sunshine here in Potchefstroom, South Africa! It was 27 today and glorious.