2017: warmest year on record without El Niño

[News]

Provisional figures for global average near-surface temperatures confirm that last year, 2017, was the warmest year on record without the influence of warming from El Niño.

When viewed alongside 2015 and 2016 – both of which were dominated by a significant El Niño – last year was the second or third warmest year for annual global temperatures since 1850.

Scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre and the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit produce the HadCRUT4 dataset, which is used to estimate global temperature.

The HadCRUT4 global temperature series shows that 2017 was 0.99±0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels, taken as the average over the period 1850-1900, and 0.38±0.1 °C above the 1981-2010 average. 2017 is nominally the third warmest year in the HadCRUT4 series. Figures from other global centres place 2017 as second or third warmest.

Read all the details here: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/2018/2017-temperature-announcement

 

[Fiveospades]

Interesting statistics, we haven't had a real frost or snow cover here for a number of winters now. Milder winter are the norm rather than the exception so it seems.
What happened to the long hard winter predicted by our friends at the Daily Mail?.

 

[DrDunc]

Seven inches of snow just melted here when what feels like an inch of rain fell on it

It's been wet since last July.

No chance of utilising the warmer climate to grow anything. It all drowns

 

[Fish]

Winter 17-18 so far will have been the coldest since 2010 in this area, we have had frost on at least 50% of the nights since Dec 1/17, with temps down to -6 a few times, the first frosts came in November.
Seems to have been cold and wet since September.

 

[Still Farming]

When the Spanish start coming here for beach Holidays we will start worrying ??

 

[linga]

Seven inches of snow just melted here when what feels like an inch of rain fell on it

It's been wet since last July.

No chance of utilising the warmer climate to grow anything. It all drowns

Greater precipitation is consistent with a warmer atmosphere.
We are currently planning our farming system to cope with more rain

 

[jpd]

doesnt feel like it sitting here
the land saturated
and i lost straw for the first time ever last autumn