Climate of 2009
January in Historical Perspective
National Climatic Data Center
17 February 2009
Contents of this Report:
2008 Annual Report is available here. Major Highlights
NOAA: January Temperature Seventh Warmest for Global Temperatures
The combined global land and ocean surface average temperature for January 2009 was the seventh warmest since records began in 1880, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.
The analyses in NCDC's global reports are based on preliminary data, which are subject to revision. Additional quality control is applied to the data when late reports are received several weeks after the end of the month and as increased scientific methods improve NCDC's processing algorithms.
Global Temperature Highlights (Blogger's note: can you believe these temps are not given in Celcius?)The combined global land and ocean surface temperature for January was 54.55 °F, 0.95 °F above the 20th century mean of 53.6 °F.
Separately, the global land surface temperature was 38.67 °F, 1.67 °F above the 20th century mean of 37.0 °F, ranking as 8th warmest on record.
The global ocean surface temperature of 61.20 °F ranked as 7th warmest on record and was 0.70 °F above the 20th century mean of 60.5 °F.
BLOGGER'S NOTE: This report is quite long -- to read more, click here:
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2009/jan/jan09.html
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