Parametric plots of smoothed climate variables at Manilla
“Record cold subsoil November 2016”
May raw anomaly data (orange)
While not far from normal, May 2017 was warm and humid (“Interglacial”), in contrast to April, which had been cool and arid (“Glacial”).The daily temperature range remained normal as both maximum and minimum temperature anomalies rose. Subsoil temperature rose above normal.
Fully smoothed data (red)
The most recent fully-smoothed data point, for November 2016, completes data for the spring season. Following a winter that had been cool and moist, spring showed rapid warming and drying. The November dew point seems to have reached a minimum: one not nearly as low (arid) as in the previous two years.
The smoothed anomaly of daily minimum temperature, which had hit a record high value in May 2016, approached a minimum value that was near normal in October, and began to rise again.
Smoothed subsoil temperature anomaly reached a new record low value of -1.16° in November. It beat a record that was set in March 2008, a few months after the global temperature minimum of October 2007.
Fully smoothed data – Gaussian smoothing with half-width 6 months – are plotted in red, partly smoothed data uncoloured, and raw data for the last data point in orange. January data points are marked by squares.
Blue diamonds and the dashed blue rectangle show the extreme values in the fully smoothed data record since September 1999.
Normal values are based on averages for the decade from March 1999.* They appear on these graphs as a turquoise (turquoise) circle at the origin (0,0). A range of anomalies called “normal” is shown by a dashed rectangle in aqua (aqua). For values in degrees, the assigned normal range is +/-0.7°; for cloudiness, +/-7%; for monthly rainfall, +/-14 mm.
* Normal values for rainfall are based on averages for the 125 years beginning 1883.