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    Lightbulb January 2017 Third-Warmest Global January On Record

    While a powerful El Niño has faded, the globe’s heat continues to be an enduring phenomenon due largely to carbon pollution. This January was the third-warmest January on record, according to data released this week from both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

    The agencies use different baselines and techniques to measure the Earth’s temperature. NASA’s data shows the planet was 1.7°F above the 1951-1980 average while NOAA’s data indicates the planet was 1.6°F above the 20th century average.


    Data show large parts of Eurasia, North America and the Arctic were extremely warm for January.
    Credit: NASA

    Both datasets show largely similar patterns of warm and cold spots. The eastern half of North America and parts of Russia and China were all well above normal for this time of year while Europe and the western U.S. were on the cooler side.

    The real planetary hot spot was the Arctic, though. NASA’s analysis includes the region, which was blistering by January standards. Large areas saw temperatures that were up to 9°F above normal. The heat has continued into February with another wave of air up to 50°F above normal reaching the North Pole in the past week.

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    2017 Among Warmest Years On Record...

    2017 Among Warmest Years On Record
    January 18, 2018 - This past year, 2017, was among the warmest years on record, according to new data released by NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.
    The planet's global surface temperature last year was the second highest since 1880, NASA says. NOAA calls it the third warmest year on record, because of slight variations in the ways that they analyze temperatures. Both put 2017 behind 2016's record temperatures. And "both analyses show that the five warmest years on record have all taken place since 2010," NASA said in a press release.

    The trend is seen most dramatically in the Arctic, NASA says, as sea ice continues to melt. "Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years," said Gavin Schmidt, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.


    Yellows, oranges and reds show regions where the average temperature from 2013 to 2017 was higher than a baseline average from 1951 to 1980, according to an analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

    In NASA's rankings, 2016 was the warmest ever. But it adds that 2016's temperatures were heightened by an El Niño event. "In an analysis where the effects of the recent El Niño and La Niña patterns were statistically removed from the record, 2017 would have been the warmest year on record," NASA says.

    The warming trend was clear in both land and sea temperature measurements. According to NOAA, 2017 average land surface temperatures were 2.36 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the 20th century average, while sea temperatures were 1.21 degrees Fahrenheit higher than that benchmark.

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...ears-on-record

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    That is a global average. Some areas had record lows.
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    Where are the cold winters coming from?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    That is a global average. Some areas had record lows.
    It was 25 degrees here Wednesday night, my tomato plants got burnt with 4 layers of sheets on them. I have lived here 8 years and it never got this cold, damn Glo-Bull warming!
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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    It was 25 degrees here Wednesday night, my tomato plants got burnt with 4 layers of sheets on them. I have lived here 8 years and it never got this cold, damn Glo-Bull warming!
    Sucks but what happened was the arctic vortex weakened enough to allow frigid polar air to escape south. It wasn't colder overall. The cold was just in a different place than it otherwise should have been. It is being debated as to why that weakening may have occurred. I have my doubts about a lot of this AGW stuff, and enjoy a good anecdotal slam of the cult either way, but factually it is more of a weird weather event than anything else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Sucks but what happened was the arctic vortex weakened enough to allow frigid polar air to escape south. It wasn't colder overall. The cold was just in a different place than it otherwise should have been. It is being debated as to why that weakening may have occurred. I have my doubts about a lot of this AGW stuff, and enjoy a good anecdotal slam of the cult either way, but factually it is more of a weird weather event than anything else.
    The new meme is "climate change" lol. Geology, Archeology, Paleontology and Climatology all tell us climate change has been one of the few constants thru the ages!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    Sucks but what happened was the arctic vortex weakened enough to allow frigid polar air to escape south. It wasn't colder overall. The cold was just in a different place than it otherwise should have been. It is being debated as to why that weakening may have occurred. I have my doubts about a lot of this AGW stuff, and enjoy a good anecdotal slam of the cult either way, but factually it is more of a weird weather event than anything else.
    The damn RCMP let their guard of the arctic vortex down!
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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    The new meme is "climate change" lol. Geology, Archeology, Paleontology and Climatology all tell us climate change has been one of the few constants thru the ages!
    A position I have advanced many times, but that does not change that the current cold as a witch's titty weather in the mid-atlantic was an outlying event not because of its severity but because of its duration, for instance. Last week was far more like the weather I experienced during winters living in the Pittsburgh region than down here in Dixieland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by resister View Post
    The damn RCMP let their guard of the arctic vortex down!
    More likely something to do with the currents in the Atlantic, but we all know from Bullwinkle that those Mounties are an unreliable lot.

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