March 2024 Sets New Global Temperature Anomaly Record - But It Must Be El Nino's Last Gasp
Well, despite talk of cooling after the record warmth of 2023, March 2024 continues the trend of record hot months:
Judging by the atrocious cold, wet weather throughout March here in Blighty and the unpromising outlook for the first couple of weeks in April. I was expecting a slight to moderate ‘coming off the boil’. But the world is still simmering very nicely thank you despite Spring being cancelled here in the UK. But it’s OK, it’s just the last gasp of the ever-giving miraculous, only just ‘strong’ El Nino which has apparently been dominating global temperature even from the days when it was knee high to a grasshopper and it’s got absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with unmentionable volcanoes:
April 2nd, 2024 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
The Version 6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for March, 2024 was +0.95 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, up slightly from the February, 2024 anomaly of +0.93 deg. C, and setting a new high monthly anomaly record for the 1979-2024 satellite period.
New high temperature records were also set for the Southern Hemisphere (+0.88 deg. C, exceeding +0.86 deg. C in September, 2023) and the tropics (+1.34 deg. C, exceeding +1.27 deg. C in January, 2024). We are likely seeing the last of the El Nino excess warmth of the upper tropical ocean being transferred to the troposphere.
What’s that now? 10 months - nearly a year - of record high global temperature anomalies. April, it must be April; that’s when the miraculous El Nino will run out of steam! Put it in your diary.
Amazing how the excess temperature has been really consistent for months too, around a +0.9 C, not sure if that is co-incidence, or whether this is to be expected with Hunga Tong...?
There seems to be not much correlation between recorded temperatures and actual weather, e.g. as between the recent record highs of the UAH tropospheric series and the cold weather recorded all around the globe.
Here in Lanzarote, the Met Office says the local temperature is around 21C max, yet it feels dangerously burning hot, like 30C in July South of France.
Maybe far too much store is being put in temperature readings with regard to their impact on weather and, longer term, on climate.