September Temperature Was Second Warmest - NOAA

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Posted on 24. Oct, 2009 by eco in Global warming

The surface temperature of global land and ocean in September was the second warmest on record, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. Based on records going back to 1880, they found that The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.12 degrees F above the 20th century average of 59.0 degrees F.

* Arctic sea ice covered an average 2.1 million square miles in September - the third lowest for any September since records began in 1979. The coverage was 23.8 percent below the 1979-2000 average, and the 13th consecutive September with below-average Arctic sea ice extent.

* Antarctic sea ice extent in September was 2.2 percent above the 1979-2000 average. This was the third largest September extent on record, behind 2006 and 2007.