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NOAA Anomaly Down: Still Waiting for HadCrut!

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NOAA has reported their December 2008 anomaly for the world. It’s down:

  1. November 2008: 0.6195 C
  2. December 2008: 0.4821 C

I know NOAA US data came out much earlier this month, showing a drop in temperature. Evidently, their records indicate a worldwide drop.

Figure 1: NOAA Trend since 2001 just a tad below zero.
Figure 1: NOAA Trend since 2001 just a tad below zero.

NOAA has generally published after HadCrut. I’m still waiting for HadCrut. I’d like to do year end post and I need HadCrut!

15 thoughts on “NOAA Anomaly Down: Still Waiting for HadCrut!”

  2. DougW
    Yes. Everyone is given my permission to pretend the terminology “above below zero” is a sophisticated joke related to statistical uncertainty. . .

  3. After 80 or so consecutive hours of below zero temps, bottoming out at minus 35F yesterday morning (Lakeville, MN) I, for one, am ecstatic that it’s finally “above below zero.”

  4. Terry–We are 20F. Yay!!!! Here in balmy Chicago, we also had many consecutive hours of below zero F. (Skilling predicted 60 hours; I don’t know what we finally got.)

    Visitors from Mn might have felt right at home.

  5. We’re up to 19 as well. Coincidentally, one of my daughters is in Chicago for the weekend on a senior trip – glad it warmed up so they can wander around and be touristy!

    Back on topic, I noticed hadcrut3 and 3v were updated 1/11 – which file are you waiting on? Just curious.

  7. Ah, thanks – I just downloaded and looked at the hadcrut3 zip, and saw that it only goes thru November 08 also.

  8. No matter what the Hadcrut3 December number is, Lucia’s upcoming post should be quite interesting – stay tuned everyone.

  9. NCDC reported that 08 tied 01 for 8th but when I looked at the annual data it was 9th… I’m sure they left out the margin of error thing.

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  11. Hadcrut3 is out now. Huge drop in December to 0.307C (from a revised November number of 0.400C). 2008 average of 0.325C

    It looks like all the monthly data has been adjusted back to August 2007 so will have to be re-entered for those keeping track.

  13. R James (Comment#9341) January 23rd, 2009 at 11:13 pm ,

    The second column in your first link is the actual temperature anomaly. The other columns are upper and lower confidence intervals that include different sources of error. The last two columns are the overall upper and lower confidence intervals. Try truncating the URL to go back up a level or two. The explanation is usually there somewhere.

  14. Thanks – now I just need to find out why it doesn’t correspond to the other site data. Perhaps someone can enlighten me. As you suggest, I’ll try truncating the URL ans see what I find.

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