Warmest month of May ever

[pscot]

But you knew that.

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html

The globe recorded its warmest May since record keeping began in 1880, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The May temperature anomaly of 0.69°C (1.24°F) beat the previous record set in 1998 by 0.06°C. We've now had three consecutive warmest months on record, the first time that has happened since 1998. NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies also rated May 2010 as the warmest May on...

[no_hypocrisy]

1. In northern NJ, it felt like the worst days in August. Steamy, hot, air impossible to breathe.

[watrwefitinfor]

2. Ditto in my part of South Carolina.

We have had temps edging toward 100 since the last two weeks of May. I've seen Augusts not nearly this hot and muggy.

Wat

[PJPhreak]

3. Here in SE Kansas,

We have had floods (Big Ones) record rainfall (11 inches in just under 10 hours) And its been 92-96 Degrees...And Summer starts tomorrow!

[indepat]

4. Having all this and then some in SW TN: hi temps have been in the 98-100 range

[joshcryer]

9. Summer starts TOMORROW? OMG.

:O

[n2doc]

6. Same in Savannah n/t

[joshcryer]

8. This is the most humid summer I can remember here in Colorado.

The humidity ruins our nights because typically the dry air cools down within a few hours after sunset. Now it's into the high 70s until midnight. Quite unusual.

[joshcryer]

10. A humid spring? For some reason I didn't realize it wasn't summer. :P

[HughMoran]

11. I've had August crickets chirping away in May in NH! A large one got into my house

house last month! Invasion of the crickets usually happens in August or later. It's crazy this year!

[tom_paine]

5. Those Lib'rul thermometers are LYING, like Lib'ruls always do

:sarcasm:

[joshcryer]

7. Nice.

I said this but my data point was the UAH graph, nice to see the full record does verify my statements.

[mimitabby]

12. happy to be the outlier

YAHOO! we're still in the low 50's in Seattle.

(and everyone's getting really tired of it too) but i prefer this weather to what the rest of you are having..

[Viva_La_Revolution]

14. Not me! My garden desperately needs some sunshine! nt

[Nederland]

13. Let's put this in context

The key sentence is this one:

The May temperature anomaly of 0.69°C (1.24°F) beat the previous record set in 1998 by 0.06°C.

In other words, over the last 12 years we've seen about 0.06°C of warming--no where near the pace of warming that is predicted by climate alarmists. What we are seeing here is the same story we've seen for several years now: yes the world is getting warmer, no it is not getting warmer as quickly as we were told it would. I find it amusing that the climate alarmists trumpet the fact that this data shows that they were right that the world is getting warmer, while conveniently ignoring the fact that the very same data shows that they were completely wrong about the magnitude of that warming.

[bergie321]

15. Comparing the top 2 years

Is not an honest comparison. It is akin to the old denier standby of showing "global cooling" by comparing everything to 1998. Long term comparisons show that we are warming at an alarming rate.

[Nederland]

16. Do they?

Long term comparisons show that we are warming at an alarming rate.

Really? I suppose the answer depends on your definition of "alarming". If you look at the actual data however, there is no long term trend that exceeds 0.2°C of warming per decade. That is at the extreme low end of IPCC projections for warming, and far below the rate that many climate alarmists tell us we should expect.