Following on last month's "Satellite-Inferred Global Temperature Down In October—With A Caveat" where the drift of NASA's satellites forced a truncation of the dataset.
From Dr. Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, (UAH) December 3:
UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for November, 2024: +0.64 deg. C
Metop-C Satellite Added to Our Processing
With this update, we have added Metop-C to our processing, so along with Metop-B we are back to having two satellites in the processing stream. The Metop-C data record begins in July of 2019. Like Metop-B, Metop-C was designed to use fuel to maintain its orbital altitude and inclination, so (until fuel reserves are depleted) there is no diurnal drift adjustment needed. Metop-B is beginning to show some drift in the last year or so, but it’s too little at this point to worry about any diurnal drift correction.
The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for November, 2024 was +0.64 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down from the October, 2024 anomaly of +0.75 deg. C.
The Version 6.1 global area-averaged temperature trend (January 1979 through November 2024) remains at +0.15 deg/ C/decade (+0.21 C/decade over land, +0.13 C/decade over oceans).
The following table lists various regional Version 6.1 LT departures from the 30-year (1991-2020) average for the last 23 months (record highs are in red). Note the tropics have cooled by 0.72 deg. C in the last 8 months, consistent with the onset of La Nina conditions....
....MUCH MORE
We will have to factor-in the dataset discontinuity when we do the final tally on our prop bet.
If interested see the bet saga:
From May 5's "UAH Global Temperature Update: April Sees New High Temperature Anomaly For The Satellite Era":
Great, just effin' great. I had to go shooting my mouth off with a prop bet on May 2, couldn't wait for the new number to be released, no sirree, had to be posted when the memory to post it was triggered:
Here's a prop bet for you. By May 15, 2026 we will see the satellite-
measured-inferred global lower atmospheric temperature anomaly decline by at least 1/2 degree C.The two keepers of the satellite record are Remote Sensing Systems in Santa Rosa CA and the University of Alabama-Huntsville.
Here's the temperature graph from UAH:....
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and repeated: "Again the baseline for the prop bet: the above 'Latest Global Temp. Anomaly (March '24: +0.95°C)'"
Well here's Roy Spencer, PhD from the University of Alabama-Huntsville at his personal site, later on that same day that shall live in infamy, May 2, 2024:
UAH Global Temperature Update for April, 2024: +1.05 deg. C....
UAH Global Temperature Update: May Sees Temperature Anomaly Come Down A Bit
The University of Alabama-Huntsville is one of the two keepers of the satellite temperature record (along with Remote Sensing Systems). Here's UAH's Dr. Roy Spencer with the update and our adventures in prop bets after the jump.July 3
Latest Global Average Tropospheric Temperature Anomaly Comes Down A Little Bit More (plus the prop bet, month 3)
