{"id":10103,"date":"2017-02-17T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2017-02-17T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:45:48","slug":"noaa-january-2017-was-third-warmest-on-record-for-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/02\/noaa-january-2017-was-third-warmest-on-record-for-globe\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: January 2017 was third warmest on record for globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday NOAA released their global statistics for January 2017. \u00a0 They show that the January temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.58\u00b0F above the 20th century average of 53.6\u00b0F. This was the third highest for January in the 1880\u20132017 record, behind 2016 (highest) and 2007 (second highest). \u00a0This is in agreement with the NASA statistics released earlier this week. \u00a0NASA uses a different set of data to do their calculation, so their actual numbers may vary slightly from NOAA&#8217;s values.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the warm temperatures, it was also a record low amount for both the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice covers. \u00a0This is in contrast to a few years ago when Antarctic sea ice was at a record high (although the amount there dwarfs the sea ice cover in the Arctic). \u00a0You can read a commentary about this by Chris Mooney in the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2017\/02\/16\/antarctic-sea-ice-used-to-be-the-darling-of-climate-doubters-not-anymore\/?utm_term=.713f5cd8fbe9&amp;wpisrc=nl_green&amp;wpmm=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/jan-17-noaa-global-temp.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10104\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/jan-17-noaa-global-temp-300x245.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/jan-17-noaa-global-temp-300x245.gif 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/02\/jan-17-noaa-global-temp-169x138.gif 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday NOAA released their global statistics for January 2017. \u00a0 They show that the January temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.58\u00b0F above the 20th century average of 53.6\u00b0F. This was the third highest for January in the 1880\u20132017 record, behind 2016 (highest) and 2007 (second highest). \u00a0This is in agreement with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10105,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions\/10105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}