Posted on 08/20/2010 2:08:07 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
And no wonder, look at the size of the La Nina! - click to enlarge
Still Cooling: Sea Surface Temperatures thru August 18, 2010
by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite continue the fall which began several months ago. The following plot, updated through yesterday (August 18, 2010) reveals the global average SSTs continue to cool, while the Nino34 region of the tropical east Pacific remains well below normal, consistent with La Nina conditions.
(click on it for the large, undistorted version; note the global SST values have been multiplied by 10)
Dr. Spencer points out that oceanic cloud cover seems to be peaking. See the rest here
“10 - 15 degrees below normal on the San Fran peninsula. My veggies won’t ripen! Jackets every morning. Yesterday and today feel like the first real summer days.”
Ah yes, good ole mother nature; when someone, like us on the east cost, get more (than “average”) heat (or it could have been “cooling”), then someone, somewhere gets the opposite.
The northern hemisphere is going to be in for one hell of a cold snowy winter once again. Wish it where otherwise.
In Brazil
Thanks Ernest.
That is Hansen’s belief....and he intends to work on the data till it is correct!
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