NASA: 2005 warmest year in a century

Tuike

Previously other researchers stated that year 2005 was the second warmest year. Nasa now claims year 2005 was the warmest. In Nasa's research they have included arctic regions, that were ignored by others. That's why they got different result.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/2005_warmest.html

Etalon · Heavy Crude Joined: Sep 04, 2005 Posts: 117

Thanks for the link, the graphic on global temperature anomaly is very interesting.

Gil-Galad · Tar Sands Joined: Sep 19, 2005 Posts: 48 Location: UK

The temperature may have been higer in 2005, but I live on the most southerly bit of the UK and we are having a cold winter. We have snow, ice and very cold wind today. This has not been the case recently.

oilfreeandhappy

It's definitely been warmer along the front range of Colorado. I can't remember ever playing as much outdoor tennis in the winter. I played in shorts and a T-shirt 3 times in January!
Jim
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Ingenuity_Gap

The overall trend is pretty clear. The planet is warming. I'll let the scientists debate the causes.

What really worries me is that the weather seems to be evolving to extremes: hot and dry, then freezing and humid.

I live in Canada and to be honest I've never seen a winter so warm and dry. With a small exception before Christmas, the temperatures stay above 0C and the snow has yet to come.
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gnm

Same here - I am in the mountains of New Mexico and we would normally get a total of 5 feet or so of snow over the winter. This year the total precip is less than 2 inches of snow (no rain) Average temps are swinging a lot with a couple of 2 week or so periods when it was really cold (like 20F below mean) but in general it has been 5-10 F above normal mean. And windy as hell. like spring sort of.

In NM we have two seasons. Hot dry and windy and cold dry and windy....
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oilfreeandhappy

Sounds like the entire US has had a very warm year, not only in 2005, but in the start of 2006.