Global averaged surface temperature for November 2018 was 0.63C using my spherical triangulation method merging GHCNV3 with HadSST3. This is a fall of 0.12C since October. The baseline used is always 1961-1990.
With just one month to go this ensures that 2018 will be the 4th warmest year, continuing the slow recovery from the super El Nino year in 2016.
Annual global temperatures. The bottom trace shows that continuous small adjustments are made retroactively in GHCN – right hand axes.
North America was exceedingly cold in November
Interesting that UAH shows a rise for November
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2018/12/uah-global-temperature-update-for-november-2018-0-28-deg-c/
Nick Stokes finds an even bigger fall for November
https://moyhu.blogspot.com/2018/12/november-global-surface-templs-down.html
Lower Troposphere and surface are slightly different things.
It seems that 90% of the cooling areas are well inland of marine effects. Conversely, the oceans are producing all of the warming anomaly. It’s very much like one would expect to see if there were a negative radiative imbalance!
Even the cool spots over the sea, (near northeast Canada and west Africa,) are areas whose air recently came from those adjacent lands.
Correction: Rather than showing a negative imbalance it’s actually just a less positive imbalance than the historical 0 baseline.
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