A quastion

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

Is 2006 on a record pace for global temperatures. I just went to know.

[x-y-no]

Is 2006 on a record pace for global temperatures. I just went to know.

Globally I think it's like #3 or #4 so far ... It was #3 through March, IIRC, but April was only #6 globally so that would pull the average down some..

For North America region, it's #1 through April.

At least some portions of the Arctic are extrordinarily warm. For example, Svalbard Island, Norway was 12.4 degrees Celsius above average for April. That's an anomaly of over 5 standard deviations - just astronomically unlikely ... warmer in fact than any previously recorded May.

[x-y-no]

Oops ... seems I wasn't quite remembering correctly. From Jeff Masters:

April 2006 was the warmest April on record in the U.S. since record keeping began in 1895. The U.S. has now had two "warmest ever" months this year, January and April. The nationally averaged April temperature was 56.5°F (13.6°C), which was 4.5°F (2.5°C) above the 1901-2000 (20th century) mean. Globally, April ranked as the 7th warmest April on record, and the period January through April ranks as the 6th warmest such period on record globally.

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

So its 3rd for warmest world wide? I thought when time go by it suppose to be easier to break these record through the fact that the world is warming.