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,
Remember when Mount St. Helens tossed 1 cubic mile of rock and ash into the mesosphere in 1980? It took years for the debris to clear. Well, Hunga Tonga put 2.5 cu mi into the mesosphere in 2022 plus an unbelievable (and unmeasurable) amount of water vapor, considered to be the most plentiful greenhouse. Hunga Tonga's influence on GAST is underreported.
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.
Remember when Mount St. Helens tossed 1 cubic mile of rock and ash into the mesosphere in 1980? It took years for the debris to clear. Well, Hunga Tonga put 2.5 cu mi into the mesosphere in 2022 plus an unbelievable (and unmeasurable) amount of water vapor, considered to be the most plentiful greenhouse. Hunga Tonga's influence on GAST is underreported.
Not sure if you follow John Dee Climate Normal. But he does a splendid job of ripping apart the weather data and exposing the corruption of said data.
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.