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It’s time to lay your Quatloos on the table and bet on the UAH anomaly. The cuttoff is set for sometime late Nov. 25, 2009. As usual, you are trying to bet the value Dr. Roy Spencer will post at his blog after he processes the anomaly data:
This pool closed on the 26th of [...]

October’s Temperature Anomaly has been reported by Dr. Roy Spencer: According to UAH, the temperature anomaly for the troposphere dropped from +0.422C to +0.284C. Needless to say, my method of betting the average Channel 5 reading when bets close continues its losing streak! But other betters did [...]

The data required to compute the “ASO” average El Nino bets are now in. As readers recall, at first I was going to wait for NOAA to publish the value. But when someone found the weekly values, I decreed that the rules were that I would compute my own ASO average based on the weekly [...]

The final date for betting on October’s UAH temperature anomaly is fast approaching. Above, you can see my (now familiar) graph showing the Channel 5 AMSU readings for October to date.

Time to bet on October’s Temperature Anomaly which will be reported by Dr. Roy Spencer the first few days in November. Visitors from blog action day are welcome to try guessing the anomaly along with the rest of us. Regular readers know that we have some advance warning on this based on daily [...]

It may be late, but I did finally run the script to distribute the Quatloos. (Hopefully, it’s not totally screwed up!) Zeke placed first, and took most of the quatloos. I did badly with both of my email addresses…. (I need to stop testing with two!) Here’s are your winnings for this month:

If you’re waiting on pins and needles for the real UAH, you’ll be interested in the average of temperature anomaly from the Channel 5 AMSU for September, 2009
As you can see, according to the Channel 5 AMSU, the TLT went through a wild ride in September. It began by racing past the 20 [...]

It’s not to late to revise your bets for September’s UAH TLT reading. I know each of you have your own betting method, but I always watch the Channel 5 AMSU. Either that satellite drifted into “hot” territory or September is looking scorching hot. Here’s my version of the graphic; the daily temperature are [...]

Mike C wants to know how he can cash in his quatloos. This made me realize that I had no idea what a Quatloo looks like, so I went hunting for some honest to goodness Quatloos. I found this:

Clearly, The Providers must have been thinking about their carbon footprint when they included an image of [...]

The August betting pool was fun, so we are repeating for September. Enter your projection for the value Roy Spencer will report for UAH’s September Lower Troposphere reading.
You can enter until sometime late on Sunday September 20.