{"id":21039,"date":"2015-04-14T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T22:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=21039"},"modified":"2015-04-14T17:01:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T22:01:40","slug":"march-2015-was-a-very-warm-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/march-2015-was-a-very-warm-month\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2015 Was A Very Warm Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last 12 months have been the warmest one year period in the NASA database since records began in 1880. According to the just released NASA GISS Global Temperature Data, March, 2015 is estimated to have been the fifth warmest month on record. Here are the top 20 months in rank order:<\/p>\n

2007 JAN 93
\n2002 MAR 88
\n2010 MAR 87
\n1998 FEB 86
\n2015 MAR 84<\/strong>
\n2010 APR 82
\n2014 SEP 81
\n2015 FEB 78
\n2014 MAY 78
\n2014 OCT 77
\n2005 OCT 76
\n2015 JAN 75
\n2013 NOV 75
\n2010 NOV 75
\n1998 JUN 75
\n1995 FEB 75
\n2010 FEB 74
\n2006 DEC 74
\n2014 DEC 73
\n2014 AUG 73<\/p>\n

Here is the monthly data covering the entire period of the instrumental record (1880 – present)<\/p>\n

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And, most importantly, here is the 12 month running mean (showing only since 1940 to make it easier to read):<\/p>\n

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And a couple more graphics showing the last few months up close:
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And this is just looking at January through March for each year in the database:<\/p>\n

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The last 12 months have been the warmest one year period in the NASA database since records began in 1880. According to the just released NASA GISS Global Temperature Data, March, 2015 is estimated to have been the fifth warmest month on record. Here are the top 20 months in rank order: 2007 JAN 93 … Continue reading March 2015 Was A Very Warm Month<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,856,97,20,3078],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5tl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}