Looking Back at the Global Climate in July 2013 – This past July seems to have been the warmest July on record.

August 16, 2023Posted inClimate, weatherNo Comments

Please note the title was meant to be Looking Back at the Global Climate in July 2023, not July 2013.

Every month, John Bateman sends me a nice email. Actually, he sends me two: one about the U.S. and one about the world.  I have already published an article based on his U.S.-focused email and you can find it HERE. Two days ago he sent me the email for the world. Since they are emails, I usually can not provide a link to what he sent me. He is a spokesperson (not sure that is the right description of his job) for NOAA both NCEI and other parts of NOAA.  For this monthly article, all of the information in his email comes from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information so the information he includes in his email and much more can be found HERE.

Since he is a very good writer I use a lot but not all of his material and supplement it with some additional material from the NCEI website or other NOAA websites. I have not indicated what I took from his letter and what I added but if someone has questions on that I can explain it.

Obviously the headline this month is that it looks like July has been the warmest July since this data has been collected.

This is the record of July-only land and ocean temperature anomalies and this July appears to have set a new record high. It is just speculation on my part but I think it is the stepwise rise in temperature we get with an El Nino.

 

Looking Back at July 2023 in the U.S. August 9, 2023

August 9, 2023Posted inweatherNo Comments

As I often do I reproduced John Bateman’s article in its entirety when I provide a review of the prior month.  I really did not have a link for his article but similar information was available at NCEI but John provides a good summary of the information so I tend to use it.

But I also like to add after John Bateman’s article, a few additional graphics namely the state ranking maps. These show how temperature and precipitation for each state ranks relative to the 139 years of what is considered to be the most reliable data we have.    

A Review of the U.S. 2022 Climate January 11, 2023

January 11, 2023Posted inClimateNo Comments

Here is the official Review of the 2022 Annual Climate. Actually, it is a summary of a summary. The full report will be released on January 12. John Batement does a good job of summarizing the summary report. I have provided his full report in the body of this article.

Here are my observations:

  • In terms of temperature, it was in the top third of the 128 years in the database, and in terms of precipitation, it was in the driest third of the 128 years of record. I am not impressed.
  • In terms of impacts, it was the third worst in the 43 years of record. That got my attention. I do not take this part of the report at face value. It needs further analysis.
  • In terms of drought it was the worst year in the 22 Year record of the Drought Monitor – Note we have 128 years of climate data but only 22 years of drought data.

Compared to the rest of the World, the U.S. got off lightly.  Below is John Bateman’s full report.