feb 2024: record warm SST by record amount: nighttime IR

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With only a week of numbers to go, the IR sats have registered -- stop
me if you heard this before -- record high temps for the world's
oceans with Feb set to return a record warm SST of almost 1C above
normal temps of just 40y ago. This is more than .3C above the prev
record for the month set in 2016 -- in the middle of the prev super El
Nino.

The last 4 wks of data now look like:

Date Avg Gl SST
(gmt) (deg C rel ~1980s avgs)
22jan2024 0.87986 <-- min
23jan2024 0.871995
24jan2024 0.862405
25jan2024 0.872592
26jan2024 0.874961
28jan2024 0.895515
29jan2024 0.908694
30jan2024 0.920088
31jan2024 0.938541
01feb2024 0.956102
02feb2024 0.963117
03feb2024 0.962876
04feb2024 0.967563
05feb2024 0.966046
06feb2024 0.971828
07feb2024 0.973904 <-- max
08feb2024 0.967598
09feb2024 0.959687
10feb2024 0.942379
11feb2024 0.931587
12feb2024 0.920366
13feb2024 0.909837
14feb2024 0.902175
15feb2024 0.89845
16feb2024 0.895915
17feb2024 0.891666
18feb2024 0.899659
19feb2024 0.897271
20feb2024 0.904324
21feb2024 0.907141

avg last 2 wks: 0.92097
avg last 4 wks: 0.92131

TOP10 warmest Febs according to Hadley SST(v3):

Year Avg Feb SST
<-- 2024 ~.92C above 1980s avgs
<- +.31C
2016 0.611
2020 0.587
2017 0.520
2019 0.517
2022 0.482
1998 0.478
2010 0.462
2015 0.406
2007 0.392
2021 0.375

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