2014-2015: Warmest Winter on Record

If you live on the East Coast of the United States, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just released some statistics that may surprise you:

Globally, this has been the hottest winter on record, topping the previous record (2007) by 0.05°F.
This was “the 19th warmest winter for the contiguous US.”

Globally it’s easily been the hottest start to any year (January-February), beating the previous records (2002, 2007) by 0.07°F.

This was the second warmest February globally, and “slightly below” the 20th-century average in the contiguous U.S.
Note: For NOAA, winter is the “meteorological winter” (December 2014 to February 2015).

As the NOAA map above shows, other than the “cooler than average” northeast, this winter has been “warmer than average” and “much warmer than average” and “record warmest” over every other land area in the world.





http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/03/18/northeast-u-s-left-out-in-the-cold-in-earths-warmest-winter-on-record/

I'm sure they get accurate readings from all the countries in Central and Eastern Africa..

JasonWx wrote

I'm sure they get accurate readings from all the countries in Central and Eastern Africa..

Are those measurements done by humans or automated?  Looks like no data (grey area) from Central Africa.

How do they get ocean temps?  Is there a more reliable source for this kind of info?

Harvey wrote

 How do they get ocean temps?

Satellites ? Buoys ? Mermaids ?

Snowballs wrote

Harvey wrote

 How do they get ocean temps?

Satellites ? Buoys ? Mermaids ?

All of the above...ok maybe not Mermaids

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

......as pretty brutal cold (for March) filters into the NE Saturday night.....

Looks like a nice day for Sat at WF with temps in the area pushing 40 (at least at the base), so long as the possible showers aren't of the wrong type or too heavy, but boy is it going to get much colder for Sunday.  Summit might stay neg all day.

Coldest winter and spring in anyone's memory in the Daks

Black fly season is going to be in August