NOAA: Global Temps Push Last Month to Hottest March on Record

NOAA News ^ | April 15, 2010 | NOAA

[CedarDave]

The world’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made last month the warmest March on record, according to NOAA. Taken separately, average ocean temperatures were the warmest for any March and the global land surface was the fourth warmest for any March on record. Additionally, the planet has seen the fourth warmest January – March period on record.

The monthly National Climatic Data Center analysis, which is based on records going back to 1880, is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides government, business and community leaders so they can make informed decisions.

Global Temperature Highlights – March 2010

• The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for March 2010 was the warmest on record at 56.3°F (13.5°C), which is 1.39°F (0.77°C) above the 20th century average of 54.9°F (12.7°C).

• The worldwide ocean surface temperature was the highest for any March on record --1.01°F (0.56°C) above the 20th century average of 60.7°F (15.9°C).
• Separately, the global land surface temperature was 2.45°F (1.36°C) above the 20th century average of 40.8 °F (5.0°C) — the fourth warmest on record. Warmer-than-normal conditions dominated the globe, especially in northern Africa, South Asia and Canada. Cooler-than-normal regions included Mongolia and eastern Russia, northern and western Europe, Mexico, northern Australia, western Alaska and the southeastern United States.
• El Niño weakened to moderate strength in March, but it contributed significantly to the warmth in the tropical belt and the overall ocean temperature. According to NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, El Niño is expected to continue its influence in the Northern Hemisphere at least through the spring.
• For the year-to-date, the combined global land- and ocean-surface temperature of 55.3°F (13.0°C) was the fourth warmest for a January-March period. This value is 1.19°F (0.66°C) above the 20th century average.
• According to the Beijing Climate Center, Tibet experienced its second warmest March since historical records began in 1951. Delhi, India also had its second warmest March since records began in 1901, according to the India Meteorological Department.

Other Highlights

• Arctic sea ice covered an average of 5.8 million square miles (15.1 million square kilometers) during March. This is 4.1 percent below the 1979-2000 average expanse, and the fifth-smallest March coverage since records began in 1979. Ice coverage traditionally reaches its maximum in March, and this was the 17th consecutive March with below-average Arctic sea ice coverage. This year the Arctic sea ice reached its maximum size on March 31st, the latest date for the maximum Arctic sea ice extent since satellite records began in 1979.
• Antarctic sea ice expanse in March was 6.9 percent below the 1979-2000 average, resulting in the eighth smallest March ice coverage on record.
• In China, the Xinjiang province had its wettest March since records began in 1951, while Jilin and Shanghai had their second wettest March on record. Meanwhile, Guangxi and Hainan provinces in southern China experienced their driest March on record, according to the Beijing Climate Center.
• Many locations across Ontario, Canada received no snow, or traces of snow, in March, which set new low snowfall records, according to Environment Canada.

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[CedarDave]

Now that "climategate" has been officially downgraded to nothing more than errors by individual scientists that don't affect the overall conclusions of man-made global warming*, the "earth is doomed" chorus speaks up again by presenting worst-case observations while ignoring counter evidence.

*Climategate Whitewash

Surface Temperature Records: Policy-Driven Deception?

[pnh102]

LOL. No one is falling for this anymore.

[CedarDave]

PING!

[Marty62]

It’s all propaganda to push Cap n Tax.

Why is the Senate so desperate to TAX the American people into submission.

I heard someone mention this AM that the Congress critters are thinking up ways to TAX us rather than Cutting SPENDING

[beethovenfan]

Bovine excrement.

[mowowie]

Keep it coming you bunch of tools.

And while your at it how about start looking for a REAL job you POS’S.

[wildehunt]

Ontario, Canada received no snow, or traces of snow, in March,

That's because it's in CA this next week, ruining my vacation to Yosemite.

[CedarDave]

The worldwide ocean surface temperature was the highest for any March on record

I wonder if those were from satellite measurements; in the past they have not shown evidence of warming.

[rhombus]

More warmth, quicker!

[Vigilanteman]

Since February was the coldest month on record, average them together and you get two average months.

We have scores of people in our area who can't get contractors to install gutters until October because so many people lost them during our big snow in February!

[mlocher]

Global Warming Bling -— oops, I mean Ping.

[Stosh]

Wow - that’s really something (if of course we can believe it) - since even Phil Jones at the CUR has admitted there’s been no significant warming in the past 15 years, one can only look at that value as an interesting anomaly (or just another in a series of convenient errors or misrepresentations).

[skr]

Have they been moving the thermometers again? This was the longest, coldest winter in our area that I can recall.

[tophat9000]

NOAA: Global Temps Push Last Month to Hottest March on Record

Must be the Methane from all the bullshit

[wiggen]

Atlantic coast had an awful March with cold weather and high amounts of precipitation.

[Tucker39]

MALE Bovine Feces.......or Equine Feces. Either one will cover it. Aaaand......either one is actually more GENUINE than what the Climategate Pimps are peddling! ;oD

[tbpiper]

Great steaming piles of used bull food!

[CedarDave]

I've answered my own question. From page 71 of the report:

Satellite input was removed (Smith et al., 2008) by NOAA in July 2009 after complaints of a cold bias in the southern hemisphere. The immediate result was a sharp increase in ocean and ocean/land global temperatures. The result was that NOAA claimed that July and August 2009 had the warmest water temperatures on record, with a jump of about 0.24ºC. This added 0.15ºC to global mean temperatures.

Take a look at the Table of Contents for the report. Enough smoking guns for a whole army regiment!

[exbrit]

I will second that with Equine Excrement . . .

[pallis]

We had a couple of snow storms in March, and a little one in early April. I had seven grandbabies visiting from Florida, and they loved it. ...It is chilly today, so the globalist warmers will have to wait to sell their scam around these parts.