{"id":3090,"date":"2010-11-21T05:45:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T12:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2010-11-21T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T14:40:27","slug":"globe-experiences-eight-warmest-october-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climatology\/globe-experiences-eight-warmest-october-on-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Globe experiences eighth warmest October on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warm and dry were the key words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/thornton-weather\/denvers-october-2010-wraps-up-dry-and-warm\/\">Denver&#8217;s October weather<\/a> and that same trend was also seen globally.\u00a0 According to the National Climatic Data Center, October 2010&#8217;s average global temperature was the 8th warmest on record.\u00a0 With an average temperature of 58 degrees, the month was nearly 1 degree warmer than average.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The image below shows the areas that were warmer and cooler than the 1971 to 2000 average.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"October 2010 global temperatures. (NOAA)\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TOkTHbu6mkI\/AAAAAAAAD7Q\/QFOIt9_Z9U0\/s400\/2010-11-21_053918.jpg\" alt=\"October 2010 global temperatures. (NOAA)\" width=\"400\" height=\"224\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">October 2010 global temperatures. (NOAA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Global Temperature Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for October 2010 was the eighth warmest on record at 58.07 F (14.54 C), which is 0.97 F (0.54 C) above the 20th century average of 57.1 F (14.0 C). The range associated with the combined temperature is +\/- 0.14 F (0.08 C).*<\/li>\n<li>The October worldwide land surface temperature was 1.64 F (0.91 C) above the 20th century average of 48.7 F (9.3 C) \u2014 the sixth warmest October on record. Warmer-than-average conditions were particularly felt across western Alaska, Canada, northeastern Africa, the Middle East, Kazakhstan and large portions of Russia. Cooler-than-average regions included most of Europe, Mongolia and much of Australia. The range associated with the land surface temperature is +\/- 0.20 F (0.11 C).\n<ul>\n<li>According to the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia had its 10th coolest maximum temperatures on record for October with daytime maximum temperatures 2.12 F (1.18 C) below average. Statewide, both the Northern Territory and Queensland had their third coolest maximum temperatures since national records began in 1950.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The October worldwide ocean surface temperature was 0.72 F (0.40 C) above the 20th century average of 60.6 F (15.9 C) and was the 10th warmest October on record. The warmth was most pronounced across the Atlantic, western North Pacific and most of the Indian Ocean. The range associated with the ocean surface temperature is +\/- 0.13 F (0.07 C).<\/li>\n<li>For the year-to-date, the global combined land and ocean surface temperature of 58.53 F (14.73 C) was tied with 1998 as the warmest January\u2013October period on record. This value is 1.13 F (0.63 C) above the 20th century average.<\/li>\n<li>Moderate La Ni\u00f1a conditions continued in October, while sea surface temperatures remained below-normal across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. According to NOAA\u2019s Climate Prediction Center, La Ni\u00f1a is expected to strengthen and last at least into the Northern Hemisphere spring of 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Polar Sea Ice and Precipitation Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average Arctic sea ice extent for October was 2.97 million square miles (7.69 million square km), which was 17.2 percent below average. This marks the third lowest October Arctic sea ice extent since records began in 1979 and the 14th consecutive October with below-average Arctic sea ice extent.<\/li>\n<li>Antarctic sea ice began its annual retreat during October. October 2010 was the fourth largest sea ice extent on record (2.9 percent above average). The largest October sea ice extent occurred in 2006.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0According to Mexico\u2019s National Weather Service (Servicio Meteorolol\u00f3gico Nacional), this October was Mexico\u2019s driest since 1941.<\/li>\n<li>North and west Amazonia in Brazil was in the midst of its worst drought in the past 40 years. In October, one of the Amazon River\u2019s most important tributaries, the Black River, dropped to its lowest level of 44.7 feet (13.6 meters) since record keeping began in 1902.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm and dry were the key words for Denver&#8217;s October weather and that same trend was also seen globally.\u00a0 According to the National Climatic Data Center, October 2010&#8217;s average global temperature was the 8th warmest on record.\u00a0 With an average temperature of 58 degrees, the month was nearly 1 degree warmer than average.\u00a0 The image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/climatology\/globe-experiences-eight-warmest-october-on-record\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Globe experiences eighth warmest October on record<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[172,399,49,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}