Posted on 08/05/2023 9:11:20 AM PDT by sopo
UAH Global Temperature Update for July, 2023: +0.64 deg. C August 2nd, 2023 New Record High Temperatures and a Weird Month
July 2023 was an unusual month, with sudden warmth and a few record or near-record high temperatures.
Since the satellite record began in 1979, July 2023 was:
warmest July on record (global average) warmest absolute temperature (since July is climatologically the warmest month) tied with March 2016 for the 2nd warmest monthly anomaly (departure from normal for any month) warmest Southern Hemisphere land anomaly warmest July for tropical land (by a wide margin, +1.03 deg. C vs. +0.44 deg. C in 2017) These results suggest something peculiar is going on. It’s too early for the developing El Nino in the Pacific to have much effect on the tropospheric temperature record. The Hunga Tonga sub-surface ocean volcano eruption and its “unprecedented” production of extra stratospheric water vapor could be to blame. There might be other record high temperatures regionally in the satellite data, but I don’t have time right now to investigate that.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming…
The Version 6 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for July 2023 was +0.64 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean. This is well above the June 2023 anomaly of +0.38 deg. C.
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Enough to make it rain 40 days and 40 nights?
You may be on to something there.
I can hardly breath ..its so hot.
Let’s just be perfect for the rest of this day.
“Obama’s war on coal started”
Although, that was a short war. obama spoke.. Both sides pretended to take a side for a day and a half... and everyone gave in to “obama”.
Did you go with the 58,000 swimming pool estimate? For this to have been climatologically of consequence, it seemed trivial. it must have been more than that.
The first estimate I saw was in the hundred trillion GALLON range. They must have figured nobody would get that, so next came the swimming pool estimate.
I didn’t run any numbers, but at first blush that seemed like a trivially small amount of water compared to what is in the atmosphere.
Something is off. Maybe I used more than Atlanta itself. Even so, it's not a lot of water compared to the troposphere.
Thanks for calling attention to meteorology 101 , which I didn’t take with difference of troposphere, stratosphere
Spread that 1.3 feet of water in Atlanta across the entire globe. You probably get less than micron.
The 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption was the largest volcanic eruption since the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, and the most powerful eruption since the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The dust from the latter created a brief climate “winter”, and colored sunsets around the world for four years.
Because of a ginormous amount of heat released into the ocean, it might have caused or at least contributed to the current enlarged El Nino. The vast column of water reached through the stratosphere and into the mesosphere.
Originally, the volcano rose 2,000m from the sea floor and its caldera was 150m below sea level by 4,000m at its widest point.
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