Sentences with phrase «average of temperatures recorded»

This image illustrates how cold December was compared to the average of temperatures recorded in December between 2000 and 2008.

The corresponding averaging of the temperature record to the same resolution of the proxy was graphically shown by David Middleton at WUWT in: Simple Test of Marcott et al., 2013 Posted on March 11, 2013, especially his Fig showing 140 year averaging.

The numbers are an average of temperature records from the three main global surface data sets kept at the U.K.'s Hadley Center, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as well as at NASA.

Not exact matches

During the first third of the year, from January through April, the average temperature for the contiguous United States was 4 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th - century average, making this period the second warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The average temperature was 57.1 degrees F, up from the old record, in 1998, which landed an average of 54.3 degrees F. «We had our fourth warmest winter (2011/2012) on record, our warmest spring, a very hot summer with the hottest month on record for the nation (July 2012), and a warmer than average autumn,» Jake Crouch, a scientist at the National Climatic Data Center, told NBC News.

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has records of average temperatures around the globe dating back to the late 1800s, and they're saying that July 2015 had the highest average temperatures ever recorded.

It was a «roller - coaster ride» of a growing year that ended with a long, likely below - average - sized harvest punctuated by record September temperatures and October wildfires...

Last week Gavin Schmidt, head of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, estimated that the average global temperature in 2016 could range from about 1.1 °C above preindustrial to only slightly below 1.5 °C, based on GISS's temperature record and its definition of pre-industrial (other records and definitions vary).

Modern researchers have combined the fragmentary, overlapping records they left behind into a series of annual temperatures averaged over the region, which stretches from England's south coast 175 miles north to Manchester.

IPCC estimates, using the best and longest record available, show that the difference between the 1986 - 2005 global average temperature value used in most of the Panel's projections, and pre-industrial global average temperature, is 0.61 °C (0.55 - 0.67).

The main drivers of El Niño conditions, ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific, were as high as 3 °C above the average, making this event one of the three most intense El Niños on record.

Comparisons of climate records from just a half - century ago show that temperatures here have risen, on average, 21/2 to 3 degrees Celsius.

The statewide average temperature for the first six months of 2014 was 1.1 degree F warmer than it has been for the past 120 years of records

The record exemplifies a temperature pattern that has held across the country for much of the year, with above - average temperatures in the West and below average in the East.

What's more, there are several long - term records of global annual average surface temperatures.

From the end of February until their final hours as they froze to death huddled in a tent, Scott's team endured steady temperatures nearly 20 degrees below those recorded on average days in the 1990s, the researchers report.

Land and Ocean Combined: The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was the record highest for the month, at 61.45 °F (16.35 °C), or 1.35 °F (0.75 °C) above the 20th century average of 60.1 °F (15.6 °C).

Land Only: The global land temperature was the fifth highest on record for June - August, at 1.64 °F (0.91 °C) above the 20th century average of 56.9 °F (13.8 °C).

Ocean Only: The August global sea surface temperature was 1.17 °F (0.65 °C) above the 20th century average of 61.4 °F (16.4 °C), the highest on record for August.

Ocean Only: The June - August global sea surface temperature was 1.13 °F (0.63 °C), above the 20th century average of 61.5 °F (16.4 °C), the highest for June - August on record.

Land Only: The August global land temperature was the second highest for August on record, behind only 1998, at 1.78 °F (0.99 °C) above the 20th century average of 56.9 °F (13.8 °C), with a margin of error of + / - 0.43 °F (0.24 °C).

If 2014 maintains this temperature departure from average for the remainder of the year, it will be the warmest year on record.

The last decade has been one of the warmest on record for the polar region, with 2007 summer temperatures having risen 9 degrees Fahrenheit above average in some areas.

«The new record high calendar year temperature averaged across Australia is remarkable because it occurred not in an El Niño year, but a normal year,» David Karoly, a climate scientist from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, said in an emailed statement.

According to NOAA, the global average ocean temperature for the first half of the year is 1.42 °F (0.79 °C) above the 20th century average, the largest such departure in 137 years of records.

Last year was the third hottest on record in the United States, with an average temperature of 54.6 degrees Fahrenheit — 2.6 F above average.

«The long - term baseline temperature is about three tens of a degree (C) warmer than it was when the big El Niño of 1997 - 1998 began, and that event set the one - month record with an average global temperature that was 0.66 C (almost 1.2 degrees F) warmer than normal in April 1998.»

January through August of 1998 are all in the 14 warmest months in the satellite record, and that El Niño started when global temperatures were somewhat chilled; the global average temperature in May 1997 was 0.14 C (about 0.25 degrees F) cooler than the long - term seasonal norm for May.

So the report notes that the current «pause» in new global average temperature records since 1998 — a year that saw the second strongest El Nino on record and shattered warming records — does not reflect the long - term trend and may be explained by the oceans absorbing the majority of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as well as the cooling contributions of volcanic eruptions.

Ruiz, who contributed to the report, noted that an analysis of weather records at one páramo research station showed increases in minimum temperatures were almost twice that of lower elevations, while increases in maximum temperatures jumped to nearly three times the average at lower elevations.

That's the finding of a new study published on Thursday in Science, which uses updated information about how temperature is recorded, particularly at sea, to take a second look at the global average temperature.

The June 2013 globally - averaged temperature across ocean surfaces was the 10th highest in the 134 - year period of record, at 0.48 °C (0.86 °F) above the 20th century average.

Then argue for immediate overwhelming action since when of course the higher temperatures will naturally happen that will then naturally average out the entire relevant temperature record to the long - term middle - range amounts predicted by the consensus of the world's best climate science, well, it'll be pretty bad.

The Southern Hemisphere temperature was 0.56 °C (1.01 °F) above average, the fourth highest on record for this part of the world.

The average global sea surface temperature tied with 2010 as the second highest for January — August in the 135 - year period of record, behind 1998, while the average land surface temperature was the fifth highest.

With records dating back to 1880, the global temperature across the world's land and ocean surfaces for August 2014 was 0.75 °C (1.35 °F) higher than the 20th century average of 15.6 °C (60.1 °F).

Warmest October of record at #Barrow, average temperature 30.1 F. Every Oct since 2001 has been significantly above long term average #akwx pic.twitter.com / POtOshzzQZ

Outside of the contiguous U.S., Alaska has continued to see stunningly high temperatures: For the year - to - date, the state's average temperature is running 6.7 °F (3.7 °C) above normal and 2.5 °F (1.4 °C) above the previous record of 1926.

Granted, while the globally averaged annual temperatures for the years since the record warm year of 1998 have not exceeded the 1998 record, the global temperatures since 1998 have remained high, ranking as the second, third and fourth warmest years of the last 125 years (and quit possibly the last 2,000 + years).

A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land use change on the land - based temperature record are negligible (0.006 ºC per decade) as far as hemispheric - and continental - scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets used.

Much of central and northern Alaska had much above average temperatures during 2015, while the Aleutians and parts of southern Alaska, including the panhandle were record warm, The 2014/15 winter temperature across Alaska was 11.6 °F, 8.0 °F above average.

The annually - averaged temperature for ocean surfaces around the world was 0.74 °C (1.33 °F) higher than the 20th century average, easily breaking the previous record of 2014 by 0.11 °C (0.20 °F).

The global land temperature for 2015 was 1.33 °C (2.39 °F) above the 20th century average, surpassing the previous records of 2007 and 2010 by 0.25 °C (0.45 °F).

Extreme heat is one of the hallmarks of global warming; as the average temperature of the planet rises, record heat becomes much more likely than record cold.

In a key region of the tropical Pacific, the November average sea surface temperature beat out records from 1983 and 1997, according to the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts.

March was the 12th warmest on record for the contiguous U.S. with above average temperatures across the western half of the nation and Southeast.

Following its warmest year on record in 2013 and third warmest in 2014, 2015 remained warm in Australia, with the country experiencing its fifth highest nationally - averaged annual temperature in the 106 - year period of record, with a mean temperature 0.83 °C (1.49 °F) higher than the 1961 — 1990 average, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

While the lows being hit each day or week that winter weren't outside of what had been experienced in the historical record, the persistence of that cold across the season, with day after day of below - average temperatures, was notable.

By the end of the year, that pattern had flipped, with record and near - record temperatures across most of the East and near - to below - average temperatures for much of the West, associated with much needed above average precipitation across the region.

In the West and Southeast, twenty - eight states, including Alaska, had an average temperature that was much above average, or falling in the warmest third of the historical record.