As regular readers of this blog knows, there are two weird spikes in the Antarctic data that the NOAA never corrected.

I will show both sets of data: With spikes and with spikes averaged away by replacing them with the data from the day before and day after averaged.

This is the summary for 2015 if the spikes are not included:

Lowest Minimum 2.264 1997
Highest Minimum 3.692 2008
Lowest day of Minimum 43 1994
Highest day of Minimum 65 1986
Lowest Maximum 18.027 1986
Highest Maximum 20.201 2014
Lowest day of Maximum 243 1994
Highest day of Maximum 277 1988

 

Year	Min	Max	day of Max	day of Min	Avg Anomaly
1979	2.915	18.368	256	48	0.04
1980	2.527	19.092	267	57	-0.39
1981	2.695	18.86	261	51	-0.21
1982	2.893	18.551	246	52	-0.02
1983	2.847	18.811	263	55	-0.25
1984	2.383	18.378	266	58	-0.2
1985	2.602	18.933	254	50	-0.04
1986	2.954	18.027	261	65	-0.55
1987	3.016	18.524	258	52	-0.24
1988	2.639	18.785	277	55	-0.14
1989	2.723	18.274	266	51	-0.23
1990	2.784	18.379	273	53	-0.24
1991	2.554	18.671	273	58	-0.11
1992	2.492	18.467	255	54	-0.24
1993	2.281	18.71	263	50	-0.23
1994	3.083	18.827	243	43	0.12
1995	3.33	18.736	269	55	0.15
1996	2.597	18.831	267	56	0.13
1997	2.264	18.792	265	58	-0.26
1998	2.772	19.244	258	56	0.08
1999	2.707	18.981	273	51	0.11
2000	2.582	19.159	272	49	0.11
2001	3.441	18.494	271	50	0.02
2002	2.697	18.116	252	51	-0.43
2003	3.626	18.68	268	48	0.32
2004	3.259	19.124	252	51	0.32
2005	2.804	19.295	272	49	0.04
2006	2.487	19.36	264	51	-0.19
2007	2.723	19.086	272	50	0.03
2008	3.692	18.298	247	51	0.6
2009	2.671	19.299	267	53	0.39
2010	2.842	18.998	249	47	0.45
2011	2.319	18.954	266	53	-0.15
2012	3.111	19.478	266	54	0.36
2013	3.679	19.608	274	50	0.87
2014	3.548	20.201	263	52	1.12
2015	3.532	18.874	275	49	0.74

This is the summary for 2015 if the spikes are included:

Lowest Minimum 2.264 1997
Highest Minimum 3.692 2008
Lowest day of Minimum 43 1994
Highest day of Minimum 65 1986
Lowest Maximum 18.027 1986
Highest Maximum 20.723 2015
Lowest day of Maximum 243 1994
Highest day of Maximum 277 1988

Year	Min	Max	day of Max	day of Min	Avg Anomaly
1979	2.915	18.368	256	48	0.04
1980	2.527	19.092	267	57	-0.39
1981	2.695	18.86	261	51	-0.21
1982	2.893	18.551	246	52	-0.02
1983	2.847	18.811	263	55	-0.25
1984	2.383	18.378	266	58	-0.2
1985	2.602	18.933	254	50	-0.04
1986	2.954	18.027	261	65	-0.55
1987	3.016	18.524	258	52	-0.24
1988	2.639	18.785	277	55	-0.14
1989	2.723	18.274	266	51	-0.23
1990	2.784	18.379	273	53	-0.24
1991	2.554	18.671	273	58	-0.11
1992	2.492	18.467	255	54	-0.24
1993	2.281	18.71	263	50	-0.23
1994	3.083	18.827	243	43	0.12
1995	3.33	18.736	269	55	0.15
1996	2.597	18.831	267	56	0.13
1997	2.264	18.792	265	58	-0.26
1998	2.772	19.244	258	56	0.08
1999	2.707	18.981	273	51	0.11
2000	2.582	19.159	272	49	0.11
2001	3.441	18.494	271	50	0.02
2002	2.697	18.116	252	51	-0.43
2003	3.626	18.68	268	48	0.32
2004	3.259	19.124	252	51	0.32
2005	2.804	19.295	272	49	0.04
2006	2.487	19.36	264	51	-0.19
2007	2.723	19.086	272	50	0.03
2008	3.692	18.298	247	51	0.6
2009	2.671	19.299	267	53	0.39
2010	2.842	18.998	249	47	0.45
2011	2.319	18.954	266	53	-0.15
2012	3.111	19.478	266	54	0.36
2013	3.679	19.608	274	50	0.87
2014	3.548	20.201	263	52	1.12
2015	3.532	20.723	266	49	0.74

 

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