Parametric plots of smoothed climate variables at Manilla
“October 2015: very warm”

October raw anomaly data (orange)

After a cool September, October was very warm: the warmest of the new century in both daily maximum and daily minimum. The daily temperature range was also high, but the soil temperature was not. Rainfall remained rather low, while cloudiness and dew point were near normal.
[The recorded anomaly values for daily maximum and for daily minimum were +3.2° and +2.2° respectively. For convenience, I have plotted them 0.2° lower.]

 Fully smoothed data (red)

In the latest fully smoothed data (April 2015) all trends on the first four graphs continued to move steadily away from drought. The daily minimum temperature anomaly began to rise, and subsoil temperature rose faster.

Note:

Fully smoothed data – Gaussian smoothing with half-width 6 months – are plotted in red, partly smoothed data uncoloured, and raw data for the last data point in orange. January data points are marked by squares.
Blue diamonds and the dashed blue rectangle show the extreme values in the fully smoothed data record since September 1999.

Normal values are based on averages for the decade from March 1999.* They appear on these graphs as a turquoise (turquoise) circle at the origin (0,0). A range of anomalies called “normal” is shown by a dashed rectangle in aqua (aqua). For values in degrees, the assigned normal range is +/-0.7°; for cloudiness, +/-7%; for monthly rainfall, +/-14 mm.

 * Normal values for rainfall are based on averages for the 125 years beginning 1883.