I’m posting this because it took some time to align all the various layers, because it may be interesting to see, not because it seems to show anything in particular.
A few of things of note:
- Source: http://www.nsstc.uah.edu/climate/
- Dec 2015 is missing (so composite of Nov/Jan used as placeholder)
- Whilst this sequence is dominated by a “super” El Nino year, it’s not at all clear to me (apart from the El Nino months) that I’m seeing a huge amount of red. The regional variability is still much greater than any supposed global trend – which means any global trend may be the result of a chance occurance of similar long-term regional variability.
- There’s a clear pattern of Equatorial heat. It starts around June15 and then grows west of the Americas until it spreads out all over the equator from Dec15 to Jun16
- The other thing is that it appears heat patterns move eastward around the latitude of the British Isles and westward at the equator (although a finer division of time would be necessary).
- The colder than average areas (in what is otherwise a warmer period due to El Nino) seem to dominate in the “eastward moving” zones at about 50/60 North and south. But there’s also a few hotter than average areas in these zones.
