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La Niña begins to show up in global temperature

From Dr. Roy Spencer:

credit:drroyspencer.com

…although this, too, shall pass, when La Nina goes away.

January 2011 experienced a precipitous drop in lower tropospheric temperatures over the tropics, Northern Hemisphere, and Southern Hemisphere. This was not unexpected, since global average sea surface temperatures have been falling for many months, with a head start as is usually the case with La Nina.

This is shown in the following plot (note the shorter period of record, and different zero-baseline):

credit:drroyspencer.com

Read original report: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2011/02/uah-update-for-january-2011-global-temperatures-in-freefall/

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