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UAH has posted the anomaly for July. At 0.489 C, July is the 2nd hottest July in UAH series 5.3,edged out by July 1998 set the July record at 0.510C. However, it’s still warmer than July 2009′s 0.429C. Those who watched the daily UAH TLT temperatures are not surprised to discover July’s anomaly was warmer [...]

Place your on the August UAH value that will be posted at Roy Spencer’s blog in early September bets here:

As some will recall, the bet-challenge for July Sea Ice was to forecast the average JAXA sea ice recorded for the July 18-July 31 inclusive. The results are now in… and the winner is…. DonB who, owing to the small number of betters too all the quatloos! Here are the more detailed results: Winnings in [...]

Just to mix it up, the bet-challenge for July Sea Ice will be to forecast the average JAXA sea ice recorded for the July 18-July 31 inclusive. That’s right, I forgot to put a “July Bet” at the end of July, so this bet is for the final 14 days of the month. It’s a [...]

Place your on the July UAHTTL value that will be posted at Roy Spencer’s blog in early August bets here:

Many bettors watched in shock and awe as the NH ice melted throughout June. We have now witnessed the lowest 30 day June Sea Ice record in the Jaxa record: I’m almost afraid to see what July will bring us (but the script to bet on July will be up tomorrow.) Wondering whose bet won [...]

Roy Spencer posted the June UAH TLT temperatures. I think few of us will be surprised to discover this is the 2nd warmest June in the UAH record exceeded by June 1998. A scatterplot of temperatures since 1980 are shown below. Though Eric Steig would probably suggest it is disingenuous of me to say so, [...]

OMG! The Channel 5 AMSU temperatures page reports June 13, 2010 456.85F was warmer than this day last year!!!

Place your on the June UAH value that will be posted at Roy Spencer’s blog in early July bets here:

Jaxa posted the May 31, 2010 daily value for sea ice, and I was able to compute the average for the month. Because this is betting, not science, I record a ridiculous number of significant figures to enter into the script. With a bet of 11.921 million km^2, Pieter is our winner on the May [...]