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NOAA December 2015 – Wettest Ever – Permanent Drought Drowned

Published on January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

According to the NOAA, December 2015 ranked wettest out of 121 (121 is wettest).

NOAA USA December 2015 Max Temp – 2nd Hottest

Published on January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Wow. According to the NOAA December 2015 was 2nd Hottest Max Temperature behind 1939.

The divisional map shows the whole of the eastern US at record level or near record level.

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 12

Published on January 13, 2016January 13, 2016 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Arctic Sea Ice Extent ‘Calendar’ 2015 Visual Aid

Published on January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 by sunshinehours11 Comment

I came across a calendar tool for [R] (the language I do the programming in) in the package openAir.

With a lot of kludging (the package was designed to visualize air pollution data) I can visualize the Anomaly % for the year 2015. By anomaly % I mean if the mean is 10,000,000 sq km for 1981-2010 and the anomaly is -500,000 then the anomaly % is -5%.

Darkest red days are closest to the mean. Light colors are far below the mean.

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 11

Published on January 12, 2016January 12, 2016 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

Arctic has jumped from lowest ever to 7th lowest for day 11.

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 10

Published on January 11, 2016January 11, 2016 by sunshinehours11 Comment

After a few days of data problems on NOAA’s side the posts resume.

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 8,9,10 – No data

Published on January 9, 2016January 11, 2016 by sunshinehours12 Comments

UPDATE: Now 3 days.

Every once in a while NOAA doesn’t do a daily data update. Today was one of those days.

You can bookmark the two links below if interested.

MASIE Arctic Day 7

Published on January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by sunshinehours12 Comments

Thanks to Ron Clutz for pointing out the MASIE data goes back to 2006 now.

And for pointing out that MASIE for 2016 is running pretty high compared to NSIDC.

This is MASIE from 2006 to 2016. Strange that MASIE has fallen in last 2 days and NSIDC has jumped.

Sea Ice Extent (Global Antarctic and Arctic) – Day 7

Published on January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 by sunshinehours15 Comments

UAH December 2015

Published on January 7, 2016January 7, 2016 by sunshinehours1Leave a comment

UPDATE: The original version of this post had the y axis going from -1 to 1. I’ll leave those graphs at the bottom.

The new graphs have -3 to 3. Notice how much the NoPol Ocean temperatures fluctuate compared to the other 3 regions.

UAH for December 2015 is out.

Here is the South and North Pole Ocean Data plus the Southern and Northern Extent Ocean Data

Original graphs: