Record after record after recordAs the 2015 El Niño has built, the planet has broken one temperature
Record after record after recordAs the 2015 El Niño has built, the planet has broken one temperature record after another. All of the available numbers for August are in and like several of the previous months, August 2015 was the warmest August on record, following the warmest month ever recorded in July 2015.Rather than showing another map of the global temperature, I found this chart did a spectacular job of illustrating how far above the long-term temperature trend the year 2015 is.Starting in December 2014, we have completed 7 different “3 month blocks”. If you go into the historic temperature record…the top 7 “3 month blocks” of time in temperature have all been recorded in the last 8 months. The only reason July and August aren’t on there right now? You can’t make a 3 month block of records starting in July and August. The only 2 blocks of time on the chart not from this year come from 2010, the last year there was an El Niño event.This chart, although not that picturesque, did for me a spectacular job of showing how far above the temperature average 2015 is.-JBBImage credit: NOAA Monthly Temperature Updatehttp://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/8/supplemental/page-2https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/644605733531742209 -- source link
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