The May 2012 result is in and the average temperature from 2565 NOAA Weather Stations around the Globe was 17.32C

Jan 2011 1.37C
Feb 2011 2.85C
Mar 2011 6.93C
Apr 2011 12.25C
May 2011 16.16C
Jun 2011 20.45C
Jul 2011 22.83C
Aug 2011 22.19C
Sep 2011 18.72C
Oct 2011 13.50C
Nov 2011 8.32C
Dec 2011 4.78C
Jan 2012 3.26C
Feb 2012 3.84C
Mar 2012 9.71C
Apr 2012 12.45C
May 2012 17.32C

J-D 2011 12.584C
F-J 2012 12.745C
M-F 2012 12.795C
A-M 2012 13.031C
M-A 2012 13.048C
J-M 2012 13.145C

Here it is as a forum friendly sized graph that updates hourly



Incidentally the graph above is (at this moment in time) the result of 31,708,868 individual temperature measurements taken around the Globe since the beginning of 2011

Cheer Gerald

Bagged my 13th Blue badge overnight

Crunching while I'm still allowed

Did you spot this one http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affa...ry-fn59niix-1226096410709 our poor Aussie Brother and Sisters are going the way of the mad as a hatter UK

LOL

Boy it was cold in May in Central England (Just to the East of me)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/cet_info_mean.html

-327.7C the average temperature ... I didn't think that was possible

No wonder I can run my CPU's so fast... who needs liquid helium

The May anomaly was apparently -338.8C

It puts the yearly average at -66.59C

Off the scale



The National Grid has gone superconducting

I thought this might be interesting



As time goes by it may make better viewing

You can see the warm band migrating northwards

the source files are here http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst/

Dave

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New Scientist : Herbivores Can’t Survive A Warm Climate
Posted on June 1, 2012

Climate change will create a toxic brew for herbivores

A WARMER world might be a poisoned one. A compilation of studies suggests that as temperatures rise, herbivorous mammals will suffer greater effects from the toxins they eat, with animals living in dry regions at particular risk.

Mammals can maintain a constant body temperature and so are thought to be less vulnerable to temperature changes than cold-blooded animals like reptiles. But Denise Dearing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City has found evidence that mammals feel the heat in subtle ways. http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/06/01...nt-survive-warm-climates/