Aussie wrote on Apr 26^th, 2018 at 2:15pm:


Only Caesar can give edicts...

Auggie wrote on Apr 26^th, 2018 at 4:40pm:


Ah, Grasshoppers......what I did was to be helpfully instructive.  Doing the strike out is PRECISELY what the GMods have edicted is totally acceptable.

Auggie wrote on Apr 26^th, 2018 at 5:17pm:


You can strike out.

Still more red than blue.

March 2018 6th warmest March on record, despite the weak La Nina.

The globe is warming because we keep burning fossil fuels.

It is neutral now, but there was a weak La Nina. Why do you lie so much, Lees?

Much of the world experienced warmer than normal temperatures during March despite the relative cool-down — with peak heating hitting as high as 7.4 C above average over the Bering and Chukchi seas of the Arctic. Central through East Asia was also far warmer than normal, as was most of Antarctica. A backing up of the Jet Stream generated cooler than normal conditions over Europe and a persistent trough across the U.S. East Coast produced cooler and stormier weather as well. A cool pool over the Equatorial Pacific was a signature of La Nina — a period of natural variability that tends to drive cooler surface temperatures. But a world at sixth hottest on record despite La Nina isn’t really cool at all.

Extending into Record Warm Territory

Overall, we are still in the process of entering new, record warm territory globally. Ever since 2016, global temperatures have not dipped below the 1 C above 1880s averages range on an annual basis. And it is unlikely that they will ever do so again. At least not until the world’s governments resolve themselves to stop burning fossil fuels and to draw down carbon from the atmosphere.

Temperatures
March was warmer than average for much of Australia, with particularly warm days over New South Wales and Western Australia. For Australia as a whole it was the equal ninth warmest March on record, +0.97 °C above the long-term average. Maxima and minima were both above average, +1.18 °C and +0.76 °C respectively. March 2018 was not as warm as recent years, with March 2016 and 2017 being the warmest and third-warmest on record respectively.

For New South Wales as a whole, it was the seventh-warmest March on record, with a mean temperature that was 1.86 °C above average. Daytime temperatures were especially warm, the eighth warmest on record for New South Wales for March and more than 2 °C above average. It was the eighth warmest March on record for Western Australia, with very warm days, the seventh warmest on record for the State.

Maximum temperatures were above average across nearly all of southeastern Australia excluding Tasmania, which saw close to average temperatures. Large areas across inland New South Wales into southwestern Queensland saw daytime temperatures in the warmest 10% of historical observations (decile 10). Large parts of Western Australia also saw above average daytime temperatures, especially in the west of the State across a large region from around Geraldton up to Exmouth, which saw warmest on record March temperatures with anomalies peaking at around 3 to 4 degrees above the average. Above average rainfall led to cooler than average mean monthly maxima for northern parts of Queensland with some areas of very much below average (decile 1) daytime temperatures observed.

Minimum temperatures were above average across much of Queensland into northern New South Wales, southern parts of Victoria into southeastern South Australia and Tasmania, northern and eastern areas of the Northern Territory and much of the western part of Western Australia including the southern coastal regions. Nights were especially warm around Geraldton with warmest on record nights for March in this region. Nights were cooler than average across northern parts of Western Australia.

The month started warm over most of mainland Australia with warm anomalies extending from southern parts Queensland into New South Wales on subsequent days. Very cool daytime anomalies were observed across northern Queensland with a deep low pressure system bring rainfall to the region. Very cool daytime temperatures continued from the eighth to the middle of the month associated with an upper level trough which generated middle level cloud band which extended from central and southern Queensland, through the Northern Territory and into northern South Australia. Very warm daytime temperatures were seen across southern parts of Australia with a high pressure system located in the Tasman bringing onshore easterly flow to the region. Nighttime temperatures were relatively close to the average. The 17th saw very much above average temperatures across much of southeastern Australia ahead of a cold front. On the 18th temperatures in excess of 12 °C above average were observed along the New South Wales coast south of around Newcastle, with some March records set at exposed coastal sites from Point Perpendicular south to the Victorian border. These warm temperatures combined with the strong gusty winds ahead of the cold front resulted in severe fire danger ratings and total fire bans declared across much of the State. The month ended warm in the west of the country with late-season daytime temperature records set across Western Australia, including 45.9 °C at Roebourne on the 28th and Mardie on the 29th, the highest temperatures on record in Australia on any date after the equinox. Nights were cold in the east with a high pressure system resulting in clear skies with some stations across New South Wales and Victoria having their lowest March temperatures on record.