2010 Tied With 1998 as Hottest Year

[TomCADem]

Source: AOLNews

The year-to-date global temperature is tied with 1998 as the warmest first nine months of a year, while La Nina, which tends to have an overall cooling effect, is strengthening as the Northern Hemisphere cold season approaches.

January through September had a combined global land and sea surface temperature of 58.67 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 1.17 F above the 20th century average, according to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration release on Oct. 15. The statistics are based on National Climatic Data Center Records starting in 1880; 1998 is the warmest on record.

September was the 307th consecutive month with a global temperature above the 20th century average, a streak dating back to February 1985, and during September, both the global land surface temperature and the sea surface temperature were the ninth warmest on record.

Specific extremes of September 2010 included the first time in modern history that the Northwest Passage and the Northern Sea Route were ice free and an all-time record high temperature in Los Angeles - 113 degrees - on Sept. 27. In contrast, some of the coolest temperatures in recorded weather history were noted in parts of northern and western Australia.


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Of course, most of the mainstream media generally ignores the facts, and instead publishes polls about how more Americans don't believe in climate science. Heck, in California, Carly Fiorina and oil companies are pushing Proposition 23 as a sort of referendum on climate change. That's right. We can apparently vote on the laws of nature.

[CreekDog]

1. San Francisco had 9 days in the 90's this year, tying a record set in 1976

and nearly all of them between the last week of August and mid-October.

[Mojambo]

2. I'm really hoping that La Nina doesn't fuck with us too hard up here in the PNW

I don't mind a wet winter, but I'd rather not have to deal with a shit ton of snow.