Parametric plots of smoothed climate variables at Manilla
“December 2015: moist”

December raw anomaly data (orange)

In December, raw values for daily maximum and daily minimum temperature anomaly, which had been very high in October and November, returned to normal. Rainfall and cloud became higher than normal.

 Fully smoothed data (red)

In the latest month with fully smoothed data (June 2015) no anomalies were changing much. Most were near cool/moist climate peaks (towards the lower left): only daily minimum temperature and subsoil temperature were near warm/dry peaks. None of these peaks had extreme values.

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.