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Jan 08 coldest in 15 years (worldwide)
 --the site has great stuff for weather/climate geeks---January posted a -.08°C near global anomaly [compared to the 1979-1999average] between -70S and 82.5N latitude (the viewshed of the satellite sounder). That makes it the coldest month since January 2000, and the 2nd coldest January for the planet in 15 years. Both northern and southern hemispheres posted negative anomalies of -.120°C and -.038°C respectively, happening for the first time since January 2000. for comparison there was a one month +0.88 anomaly in 1998 during the late stage of a mega El Nino the global cooling is consistent with the fact that we are now in about the 7th month of a very big La Nina some of the truly geeky may be disappointed that we don't have full coverage, e.g., the microwave sensors don't work well over antarctica and north of Greenland; the other method of estimating global temp (the GISS, aka, Goddard Inst for space studies method) tries to factor in the polar regions using proxies, interpolation, etc. - a technique pioneered by Dr. Hanson Posted by: mhw 2008-02-08 |
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