[graffis-l] warmest January on record

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At 09:45 AM 2/20/07, you wrote:

>Warmest January ever recorded worldwide in 2007

>Posted by: " Mark Graffis " mgraffis mgraffis

>Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:43 am (PST)

>Global Warming: Warmest January ever recorded worldwide in2007!

>

>http://news./s/afp/20070217/sc_afp/usweatherclimate

>

>AFP, Monday, February 19, 2007

>

>NEW YORK - World temperatures in January were the highest ever recorded

>for that month of the year, U.S. government scientists said.

>

> " The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the highest

>for any January on record, " according to scientists from the National

>Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climate Data Center in

>Asheville, N.C.

>

>The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.53 degrees

>Fahrenheit (0.85 Celsius) warmer than the 20th-century average of 53.6

>degrees F (12 C) for January based on preliminary data, NOAA said.

>

>The figures surpass the previous record set in 2002 at 1.28 F (0.71 C)

>above average. Land surface temperature was a record 3.40 F (1.89 C)

>warmer than average, while global ocean surface temperature was the fourth

>warmest in 128 years, about 0.1 F (0.05 C) cooler than the record

>established during the very strong El Nino climate phenomenon in 1998.

>

>A moderate El Nino started in September and continued into January before

>weakening, NOAA said. El Nino is an occasional seasonal warming of the

>central and eastern Pacific Ocean that upsets normal weather patterns from

>the western seaboard of Latin America to East Africa, and potentially has

>a global impact on climate.

>

> " The presence of El Nino along with the continuing global warming trend

>contributed to the record warm January, " NOAA said. " The unusually warm

>conditions contributed to the second lowest January snow cover extent on

>record for the Eurasian continent, " it said.

>

> " During the past century, global surface temperatures have increased at a

>rate near 0.11 F (0.06 C) per decade, but the rate of increase has been

>three times larger since 1976, or 0.32 F (0.18 C) per decade, with some of

>the largest temperature increases occurring in the high latitudes of the

>Northern Hemisphere, " it said.

 

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