{"id":6441,"date":"2016-03-18T13:37:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6441"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:37:22","slug":"noaa-agrees-feb-2016-the-warmest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/03\/noaa-agrees-feb-2016-the-warmest-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA agrees: Feb 2016 the warmest ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

In their global climate summary for February 2016, released earlier this week, NOAA confirmed what was already reported by NASA earlier this month–February 2016 was the warmest ever on record by a significant fraction. \u00a0The winter months of Dec-Feb also set a new record.<\/p>\n

Even though El Ni\u00f1o contributed to the warming, the regions with the highest anomalies were high in the Arctic, where land and sea ice are rapidly being displaced by bare ground and open ocean. \u00a0In fact, the anomalies there have been so large that the map below can’t really show how much the anomalies have been since the contours stop at 5 degrees above average.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, there have been many stories about this.<\/p>\n

NOAA’s report:\u00a0https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/sotc\/global\/201602<\/a><\/p>\n

Jeff Masters’ Wunderblog: \u00a0https:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/noaa-agrees-february-2016-was-earths-warmest-month-in-recorded-histo<\/a><\/p>\n

AP’s BigStory blog from Seth Borenstein:\u00a0https:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/e56b198cc97540e394bbbad28b907c0b\/beyond-record-hot-february-was-astronomical-and-strange<\/a><\/p>\n

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In their global climate summary for February 2016, released earlier this week, NOAA confirmed what was already reported by NASA earlier this month–February 2016 was the warmest ever on record by a significant fraction. \u00a0The winter months of Dec-Feb also set a new record. Even though El Ni\u00f1o contributed to the warming, the regions with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":6443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6441","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\/6441","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=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6444,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions\/6444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}