November GISS Temp up by 0.17°C

This post is late because, as I mentioned in my last post, I've been travelling. So it isn't breaking news. GISS LOTI went from 0.60°C in October to 0.77°C in November. This is almost exactly the same as the TempLS rise. But GISS had been more volatile in earlier months.

The November reading attracted interest as being the warmest November on record. And pushback on the basis that, well, uncovered steam pipes in Russia etc. These rationalizations never explain why the steam pipes did not equally affect previous Novembers.

Still, GISS and TempLS agree that Russia was indeed the hot spot. Here is the GISS map for Oct 2013:


And here, with the same scale and color scheme, is the earlier TempLS map:

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More data and plots

TempLS global temp up 0.16°C in November

After months of nothing much, TempLS showed a rise in November, from 0.494°C (Oct) to 0.658°C. By contrast, satellite indices went down.

Here is the spherical harmonics plot of the temperature distribution:



Russia was the hot spot, with N America, esp W Canada, quite cold.

Here is the map of the 4148 (more than usual) stations reporting:



I will be quite busy over Christmas, so light blogging. I'll report on GISS if it comes soon.