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- The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for August 2015 was 0.88°C (1.58°F) above the 20th century average of 15.6°C (60.1°F) and the highest August in the 136-year record. This value surpassed the previous record set in 2014 by 0.09°C (0.16°F).
- The August 2015 temperature departure for Germany was 2.8°C (5.0°F) above the 1981–2010 average—resulting in the second warmest August since 1901, according to Germany's Met Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst).
ccording to the UK Met Office, the United Kingdom experienced cooler-than-average conditions during August 2015, resulting in a national mean temperature of 14.7°C (58.5°F), which is 0.2°C (0.36°F) below the 1981–2010 average.
- Spain experienced a warmer-than-average August, with an average temperature of 24.5°C (76.1°F)—which is 0.5°C (0.9°F) above the 1981–2010 average.
- The average temperature for Denmark for August 2015 was 17.4°C (63.3°F), which is 1.7°C (3.1°F) above the 1961–1990 average and the warmest August since 2009, according to Denmark's Met Service (DMI).
After record-shattering September, 2015 in commanding lead for Earth’s hottest year on record
Planet Earth is on a high temperature record-breaking tear this year, which shows no sign of relenting. 2015 is, by far, on track to become the warmest year in recorded history.
NOAA reports today the globally-averaged temperature for September 2015 was the warmest of all previous Septembers on record, dating back to 1880, and by an unprecedented margin of 0.19 degrees.
“September’s high temperature was …. the greatest rise above average for any month in the 136-year historical record [comprised of 1,629 months],” NOAA said.
Satellite data measure slightly different things (surface vs lower troposphere); they're expected to give slightly different results. They shouldn't be directly compared; the lower troposphere reacts differently than the surface does.
There's a great chance that after el nino RSS data will follow. We will wait and see.
The link you have states that there is a gap in temps between satellite and 2m ground instruments, and that the gap is widening
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Recently, NASA and NOAA have jointly adopted a new way of analysing surface temperatures at sea which has had the result of increasing the apparent warming seen in recent years. This has widened the gap between the global average surface temperature measurements reported by NASA and NOAA and the global average atmospheric temperature measurements reported separately by RSS and the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).
Differences between the two methods of measuring gobal temperature are to be expected but the size of the gap that has opened up between the surface temperature measurement history and the atmospheric temperature measurement history is not easy to explain
Either way, yes this year will be one of the warmest measured, but I certainly would rather believe the satellite data which accurately measures 2km of the lower atmosphere rather than several thousand uneven land and sea instruments. Click on the map to see just how much land surface NOAA has no instrumentation for, and how NOAA blends sea surface temps to make up for missing land data
Nei - I request this thread to be without discussion - only data with links to official sources (no blogs, opinions sites <like http://realclimatescience.com>, etc). Just put that in the thread title.
If that situation hold on, another thread will be trolled and then propably closed.
This is how it must work in this case, as it didn't last time, when provacations (some of them were caused by you, as they are now...) were on every step. They resulted in closed thread.
As I said, inly data from official sources. EVERY data from NOAA pages, University or government institutes, etc. that shows measured temperature departures can be posted here. But without comments or provocational mashups. Hope that is clear enough.
Satellite data are from a government or academic source as well.
I'm not going to police sources, I'm not supposed to show bias while moderating. But non-scientific sources don't really belong on a forum about weather or climate. In chicagogeorge's case he's showing real data.
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