16 October 2009
September Heat- What an Image!
Posted by Dan Satterfield
Thanks to my friend Joe Witte at NBC for the heads up on this picture. It’s a view of the September temperature anomalies worldwide. As my previous post pointed out, September was the second warmest on the instrumental record.
The redder the image, the more it was above normal. The climate models have all predicted the Arctic will warm fastest. The reason for this is the ICE ALBEDO FEEDBACK .
Looks like they got it right doesn’t it. This pattern of high latitude warming has been seen for several decades now.
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.