The rate of increase in the 365 day moving average in my DIYDIY Do It Yourself Global Temperature series we’ve seen so far in 2023, looks very similar to the one we saw in 2019-20, but thankfully not quite as steep as that of 2016. There’s plenty of time though for that to steepen of course, as the effects of the new El NinoEl Niño El Niño 'The Boy' is the warm phase of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and is associated with a band of warm ocean water that develops in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific event kick in during the remainder of 2023.

The steep increase across the northern temperate zones seem to have steadied off in recent months, but temperatures across the tropics and southern temperate zone are starting to surge. Temperatures in the Arctic have steadied after falling, and in the Antarctic temperatures continue to fall back.

The SE-NW temperature thermal gradient across the UKUK The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. & Ireland during June is picked up well in this chart, even in the coarse reanalysis gridded data that I download and use from NCEPNCEP The United States National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) delivers national and global weather, water, climate and space weather guidance, forecasts, warnings and analyses to its Partners and External User Communities.. Sea surface temperatures in the North Sea may well have been at record levels during the month, but they still managed to dissect this area of warm anomalies in two.