Looking Back at the weather for the full Year of 2023 in the U.S. Posted January 10, 2024
Most of the information in this report comes from the monthly email I receive from John Bateman. He does public outreach for NOAA and in particular NCEI. I could find the same information and more on the NCEI website but John produces a good summary so I use it or most of it. I also sometimes add additional information from NCEI or other NOAA websites. John Bateman sends me two emails. One on the World situation and one for the U.S.
I probably should have addressed the single month of December before the full year of 2023 but I received this email today so I thought I would write the article tonight for Wednesday viewing.
This article is about the full year of 2023 in the U.S.
| This is the U.S. Annual temperature trend. 2023 was by no means a record but it was above the trend line. +0.16F a decade is a fairly steep slope. You can see some cyclical characteristics in the data but the trend is clear. If I calculated the trend since 1970, the slope would be quite a bit steeper. |