A comment about the relevance of the monthly rank of temperature anomalies motivated this graph. It shows the rank of each month in the entire 401-month UAH dataset for the lower troposphere:
The warmest month is still a tie between February 1998 and April 1998 (+0.66°C). April 2012 ranks 39th.
ocean heat content has been updated:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/
another spike upwards