Amazing. The upper image here was one I just tracked down in our archives - the April 2013 temperatu
Amazing. The upper image here was one I just tracked down in our archives - the April 2013 temperature report from NOAA. That one was still at the upper end of temperature anomalies ever recorded in human history, as you can see in the text below. Then there was last month…April temperature data released from the NOAA National Climatic Data Center shows colder than normal temperatures continued across North America last month. However, areas across northern Russia and Australia saw much warmer than average temperatures. April was the 338th consecutive month (over 28 years) with a global temperature above the 20th century average. The combined average temperature over the ocean and land surface for April of this year was the 13th warmest on record (out of 134 years). Here are a few weather highlights for April:• Australia: April, 2013 saw the 5th warmest April average maximum temperature since records began in 1900.• North America: April, 2013 snow cover extent was the 3rd largest since records began in 1967.• United Kingdom: April 2013 tied with April 2012 as the coolest April since 1989• Antarctic: Sea ice extent for April was the 5th largest on record, 9.1 percent above the 1981-2010 average.• Arctic: April sea ice extent was the 7th smallest on record, 2.6 percent below the 1981-2010 average.For details on the data sets used to generate these maps, see the link below.http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cmb-faq/anomalies.php-AmyReferences:http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/04/The map below shows temperature anomalies for the month of April. Credit NOAA/NCDC -- source link
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