January 2017 was the 3rd warmest January in 137 years of modern record-keeping
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January 2017 Was Third-Warmest January On Record
Posted Feb. 15, 2017
The GISTEMP monthly temperature anomalies superimposed on a 1980-2015 mean seasonal cycle. — View larger image or PDF
January 2017 was the third warmest January in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Last month's temperature was 0.20 degrees Celsius cooler than the warmest January in 2016. However, it was 0.92 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean January temperature from 1951-1980.
A map of the January 2017 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly shows that most of North America and Siberia were much warmer than the 1951-1980 base period. Much of the rest of Asia was also relatively warm. Parts of Antarctica are gray because data from stations there had not yet been received. — View larger image
Two of the three top January temperature anomalies have been during the past two years. 2016 was the hottest on record, at 1.12 degrees Celsius warmer than the January mean temperature, followed by 2007 at 0.96 degrees Celsius warmer. January 2017 placed third.
The monthly analysis by the GISS team is assembled from publicly available data acquired by about 6,300 meteorological stations around the world, ship- and buoy-based instruments measuring sea surface temperature, and Antarctic research stations.
The modern global temperature record begins around 1880 because previous observations didn't cover enough of the planet. Monthly analyses are sometimes updated when additional data becomes available, and the results are subject to change.
Related Links
For more information on NASA GISS's monthly temperature analysis, visit:data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp.
For more information about NASA GISS, visit:www.giss.nasa.gov.
Media Contacts
Michael Cabbage, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, N.Y., 212-678-5516, [email protected]
Leslie McCarthy, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, N.Y., 212-678-5507, [email protected]
January 2017 Was Third-Warmest January On Record
Posted Feb. 15, 2017
The GISTEMP monthly temperature anomalies superimposed on a 1980-2015 mean seasonal cycle. — View larger image or PDF
January 2017 was the third warmest January in 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.
Last month's temperature was 0.20 degrees Celsius cooler than the warmest January in 2016. However, it was 0.92 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean January temperature from 1951-1980.
A map of the January 2017 LOTI (land-ocean temperature index) anomaly shows that most of North America and Siberia were much warmer than the 1951-1980 base period. Much of the rest of Asia was also relatively warm. Parts of Antarctica are gray because data from stations there had not yet been received. — View larger image
Two of the three top January temperature anomalies have been during the past two years. 2016 was the hottest on record, at 1.12 degrees Celsius warmer than the January mean temperature, followed by 2007 at 0.96 degrees Celsius warmer. January 2017 placed third.
The monthly analysis by the GISS team is assembled from publicly available data acquired by about 6,300 meteorological stations around the world, ship- and buoy-based instruments measuring sea surface temperature, and Antarctic research stations.
The modern global temperature record begins around 1880 because previous observations didn't cover enough of the planet. Monthly analyses are sometimes updated when additional data becomes available, and the results are subject to change.
Related Links
For more information on NASA GISS's monthly temperature analysis, visit:data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp.
For more information about NASA GISS, visit:www.giss.nasa.gov.
Media Contacts
Michael Cabbage, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, N.Y., 212-678-5516, [email protected]
Leslie McCarthy, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, N.Y., 212-678-5507, [email protected]
I wonder how the temps were 3 billion years ago? That's right, we don't have accurate temps from 1,000 years ago, much less 3 billion years ago.
My brother-in-law is a Colonel in the US Marines and was at one time stationed at SOCOM in FL. I asked him once if there was anything interesting that was not classified that he could talk about.
He told me that part of his job dealt with the quick-strike units, many of which are located near bases with coastal access. He said they have a lot of "think-tank" guys whose job is to hypothesize upcoming events. One guy came into his office and said that a couple of particular task forces needed to be re-deployed to more inland locations because global warming would put those bases under water, recommending locations along the Appalachian mountains as these would now be barrier islands.
He asked the guy what kind of time frame he was looking at and the guy replied that some calculations could be as early as 3-5,000 years! My brother-in-law told the guy he thought it could wait for now.[laughing]
We need to get on that ****. 3-5 thousand years. That's dialed in. I mean if you really think about, society has been pretty stable with minimal change for the last 2 thousand years. Just kind of marking time.