Every month the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information and other NOAA entities review the weather for the World in the prior Month. There is a long detailed report and I receive a summary of that report. In this article I am going to present two slides from the full report and then the email I received in its entirety.
Certainly, the Global ocean temperature setting a record for April is pretty significant. The combined land and ocean temperature being the fourth highest, to me is not a surprise at all as the first graphic in the body of the article suggests.
We will start with two graphics from the NOAA NCEI monthly report and then present the full email report from NOAA NCEI.
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| I added this graphic because I think it is important that we recognize that currently, we are at a plateau in terms of World Temperature. The fourth warmest April is definitely a warm April but it is consistent with the temperature for the past ten years or so. In fact, one can see cyclical behavior in this data set and also a period of rapid rise and now a period of seeming stability which probably will see an increase due to the coming El Nino. |
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| This map shows selected important weather events and statistics for April 2023 |
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Now I am presenting the email report I receive each month
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| I apologize if these ice extent maps are difficult to read. On the left is the North Polar Region and on the right is Antarctica |
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| I hope you found this article interesting and useful. |
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