Four weeks of climate data: Southern Tropics Region #5

 One of the main reasons I made the slices of the Southern Tropics different widths was to make sure one slice covered all of the land mass of South America that lies inside this region.

As you can see, there are some grid points in the Amazon basin that aren't covered in the era of 1955 to 2010, but overall the coverage is strong.

The low temperature graph of the Summer data shows steady warming, but barely a half degree. The other measurement bounce around a little, but they also show mild warming.

Again, generally warming but only slightly.

In all four of the graphs, the warmest reading of these 56 years happened some time in the 1990s.

And the Spring most resemble the Winter data.

Confidence of the region warming: 97.7%
Confidence of increasing rate: 50%, could go either way which means no confidence at all
Change in median temperature from the 1955-1975 interval to the 1999-2010 interval: 0.33° C


Yet again, we have a warming region, but it is not warming by very much or is it showing signs of speeding up. Later today, the last slice of the Southern Tropics, a few islands in the tropical southern Atlantic.