The Blackboard

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:

Something I’ve been hoping for happened: the AMSU-A now displays a baseline mean, max and min to the data reported for AQUA Channel 5. You can now request a plot that shows data for years 2002-now, the record high, record low and average. I don’t know if the average is for a baseline period, or [...]

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

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:

Roy Spencer posted the UAH anomany for May, 2010: 0.530 C. The visitor with the closest prediction was Jack Mosevich who bet the anomaly would come in at 0.504C. Congratulations, Jack! For those interested in how this month compares to others, here is amazingly awesome graph with all May anomalies circled, and a dashed line [...]

Unbelievably, I missed giving you all an opportunity to bet quatloos on the May UAH. You might think it’s too late to do it– but it’s not. After all, the average over all 30 days of Channel 5 values are sufficiently off to make betting a cr*p shoot. Here’ the graph of Channel 5 through [...]

Dr. Roy posted the April UAH anomaly: 0.501C. Congratulations to PEHarvey who predicted the closest value of 0.500C, but only bet 1 Quatloo. This left plenty of quatloos to divide among the other top placers.