Four weeks of climate data: Southern Tropics Region #1

The first region in the southern tropics covers sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. It should be noted that his is directly south of the region that showed the most warming in the norther tropics at nearly a degree Celsius in 56 years.

The reporting of stations looks to be a little spotty. The chunk where the text is should be somewhere around Angola or the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The story in the Summer and Fall are remarkably similar. The median trend is increasing as is the record low, but the rate is not getting faster.

The other thing the Summer and Fall patterns share is the record warm was in the late 1990s.

Winter and Spring are similar to each other as well and the pattern is very clearly warming, though the jumps are not getting taller as time goes by.

Confidence of the region warming: 99.9999%
Confidence of increasing rate: 50%, which means neither getting faster or slower
Change in median temperature from the 1955-1975 interval to the 1999-2010 interval: 0.70° C


Later today, a slice of the Indian Ocean with just a smattering of islands.