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.

As you can see, Channel 5 AMSU tells us the October started out hot, but has recently cooled. Is this “real”? Is it satellite drift? Only Roy knows for sure. (Remember, Roy does not use the Channel 5 AMSU, he uses the aqua satellite which doesn’t drift. But Channel 5 is the closest “proxie” we have reporting daily estimates of the tropospheric temperature. )

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