Four weeks of climate data: Arctic Circle Region #2

Our second slice of the Arctic Circle is the first all-Russia region. It has more land mass than any other slice of the Eastern Hemisphere and islands above the 80th parallel.

We don't expect anything like 100% coverage in the Arctic, but these grid points include several that are farther north that we saw in region #1.

The Winter data does not make a convincing argument for a warming trend, even though the median ticks up slightly each time interval. It certainly is not getting warmer faster.

Spring on the other hand does show a warming trend in every statistic, record highs, record lows and medians. Once again, it is not getting warmer faster.

Summer also argues for a warming trend but against an increasingly warming trend.

The fall median says warming and slightly increasingly so. It gets voted down by the other three seasons on the increasing part. The low temperatures argue for increasing. The high temperatures would say static, but really, all that high temperature mark says is there was one freakishly warm Fall in the 1960s. There are five Fall temperatures in the Oughts warmer than the second warmest temperature in the Sixties.

Three out of four seasons argue for a warming trend, a different three of four say it's not getting warmer faster.

Warming regions: 2-0
Increasing trend regions: 1-1

Tomorrow, the last Eastern Hemisphere slice and the first Western Hemisphere section, as we say do svidaniya to Polar Russia and "Good day, eh?" to the Canucks, with just a second to shoot a quick wink and a "You Betcha!" at Alaska.