Be Careful With Absolute Temperatures

If you plot full year temperatures, 2016 looks cold – because there are no temperatures for summer averaged in. Summer 2016 hasn’t happened yet.

STPAUL_MN_AverageMeanTemperature_Jan_Dec_1940_2016

There are two solutions to this.

  1. Don’t plot the current year.

STPAUL_MN_AverageMeanTemperature_Jan_Dec_1940_2015

2. You can use anomalies instead of absolute temperatures. This is deceptive though because it isn’t representative of the full year either.

STPAUL_MN_AverageMeanTemperatureAnomaly_Jan_Dec_1940_2016

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