{"id":176021,"date":"2021-12-03T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=176021"},"modified":"2021-12-03T15:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:10:42","slug":"the-global-average-temperature-dropped-0-29c-last-month-now-sits-at-just-0-08c-above-the-30-year-baseline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=176021","title":{"rendered":"The Global Average Temperature Dropped 0.29C Last Month \u2014 Now Sits at Just 0.08C Above The 30-Year Baseline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Version 6.0 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for November, 2021 has come in at 0.08 deg. C above the 30-year baseline. This is down quite a bit from the October, 2021 value of 0.037 deg. C, and down substantially (approx. 0.51C deg. C) from where we were at the beginning of 2020.<\/strong> A continuation of this downward trend is expected in the coming months\/years as La Nina conditions\/low solar activity persist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saying that, this recent drop has come as somewhat of a surprise \u2014 even for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who check in daily with climatereanalyzer.org<\/a> (a dataset maintained by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine), you likely would have expected November\u2019s LT to have held near its October reading of 0.37C\u2013due to daily readings of between 0.4C \u2013 0.7C above the mulitidecadal base prevailing throughout all of November. However, worth remembering here is that Climate Reanalyzer is just a forecast, it relies on models (the GFS) for its predictions (and we all know the trouble relying solely on models can get you), whereas the UAH uses real-world data collated by satellites to paint its picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The far more reliable UAH has spoken, and according to those 15x NASA\/NOAA AMSU satellites that measure every square inch of the lower troposphere (where us humans reside), Earth\u2019s temperature cooled quite drastically in November\u00a0(note also that the satellite data is preferable to ground measurements, with the latter susceptible to the\u00a0Urban Heat Island (UHI) Effect<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 see\u00a0here<\/a>, too).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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