The recovery in global temperatures from the double dip that occurred in recent years has continued to falter in the second half of 2022. The 365 day moving average continued to nudge slightly lower in December 2022, threatening a triple dip. Having said that estimated global mean temperatures for December in my DIYDIY Do It Yourself series, were just a whisker higher than they were last year, making it the third warmest December globally since 1948.