U.S. Cllimate 2022

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.