{"id":6400,"date":"2016-03-15T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6400"},"modified":"2016-03-15T21:48:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T01:48:11","slug":"february-2016-global-temperature-spike-shocks-climatologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/february-2016-global-temperature-spike-shocks-climatologists\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2016 global temperature spike shocks climatologists"},"content":{"rendered":"

While NOAA has not yet released their global temperature data for February (that should be coming soon), other data sets of global temperature from NASA and the University of Alabama at Huntsville both show a large jump in temperature anomalies for February. \u00a0In fact, the jump is so large that many climatologists were shocked at how big it was.<\/p>\n

The large increase was due in part to the continuing presence of El Ni\u00f1o in the eastern Pacific Ocean, but the biggest warming was in the Arctic, where climatologists believe the signs of global warming are most visible. \u00a0The two graphs of temperature from the NASA satellite compilation and the UAH compilation are shown below (note they have different starting years and vertical axes). \u00a0The UAH time series is often used by those who are skeptical of warming to show that there is little increase in temperatures.<\/p>\n

As you might expect, this has generated a lot of commentary in the news. \u00a0Here are a couple\u00a0of the articles, both with videos:<\/p>\n

‘True shocker’: February spike in global temperatures stuns scientists<\/a>\u00a0from Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><\/p>\n

February 2016 Was the Most Abnormally Warm Month Ever Recorded, Topping January 2016, NASA Says<\/a>\u00a0from the Weather Channel<\/em><\/div>\n
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Also see Jeff Masters’ Wunderblog here<\/a>\u00a0and the Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang post here<\/a>. \u00a0Vice News had some particularly interesting stories about other areas of the world here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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While NOAA has not yet released their global temperature data for February (that should be coming soon), other data sets of global temperature from NASA and the University of Alabama at Huntsville both show a large jump in temperature anomalies for February. \u00a0In fact, the jump is so large that many climatologists were shocked at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400","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=6400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6414,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6400\/revisions\/6414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}