Mini Hockey Sticks (2)

NOAA have posted the USA National Data analysis of the Climate for November 2009 :-

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?report=national&year=2009&month=11&submitted=Get+Report

Nationally in the United States, November 2009 was the third warmest November ever, based on preliminary data and there “was not a single state that averaged below normal temperatures for the month.”

Tucked away in that report are a few new “mini Hockey Stick” graphs that corroborate the work of Michael Mann :-

National (Contiguous U.S. States) Temperature 1895 – 2009

Annual Tornado Counts 2009 Preliminary Data

Meanwhile, back in the United Kingdom, the Central England Temperature hints that 2009 will show warming of 0.8 degrees C on average (unless we have an exceptionally cold rest-of-December) :-