Interpretation
To read that, simply interpret 'dark' as 'colder' and 'orange' as 'hotter'. Looking at the Mexico City plot for example, you get a clear trend towards warmer temperatures in the last 50 years than in the 50 years before that. I ran this for a number of cities, and the results are below...
That's it. Pretty simple way to see a temperature trend.
Data
I used data from the CRU TS dataset. I simply averaged January 1911, January 1912, etc. to get a January normal, did this for each month, then subtracted it from each month/year combination to see if that month/year combination was hotter or colder than the average. The total range here is 1911 to 2016.
Nice graphs, but...
ReplyDeleteToo bad is doesn't go to 2017.
2010 is a long time ago, temperature wise.
They're through 2016. Unfortunately, the CRU TS dataset doesn't have 2017's data yet.
DeleteAh I thought they ended in 2010.
DeleteGuess I didn't look close enough.
Thanks
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