Sophiaalbertina has three new posts that crunch the climate numbers, so you don’t have to.
In the US, May was 5.39°F cooler than the warmest May:
Sofia has a lot more. It’s been cold for the past quarter, and also over the last five months.
As she points out, these are the official figures. Just imagine what trend we might see if the geniuses responsible for collecting weather data had bothered to place stations in appropriate places.
Go read all the Sofia goodness at the links.
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I find it a bit incredible that we had an average deviation of +6-8°F for May here: The unusual warmth was only a couple of days long. Then again, I wonder if that mightn’t be a siting issue here. The NWS itself is generally more than 3° wrong every day, with excursions of 15° happening at least 2-3 times per year.
But I suppose someone is going to tell me that nobody ever uses the NWS figures for Real Peer Reviewed Science®, which makes me wonder why they bother to collect it in the first place.