Over the reporting period, the temperature departures of different MRUsshow different patterns across continents (figure 1.2). In Eurasia, most MRUsshow a negative departure compared to the average. The temperatures in theregion from the Ural to the Altai Mountains, the Lower Yangtze (China) and southernJapan and Korea (MRU-62, -1.1°C, MRU-37, -1.3°C and MRU-46, -1.2°Crespectively) were significantly below average by more than 1°C. Only inMediterranean Europe and Turkey, Caucasus, eastern Central Asia and easternSiberia (MRU-59, 0.9°C; MRU-29, 0.6°C; MRU-52, 1.0°C and MRU-51, 0.1°Crespectively), were temperature departures positive.

In North America, the temperature was close to average except on theWest Coast (MRU-16), with a departure of 0.9°C. In northern South America, thetemperature departures were positive but negative in the Southern Cone,especially in central-north Argentina, western Patagonia and the semi-arid SouthernCone (MRU-25, -0.6°C; MRU-27, -0.5°C and MRU-28, -0.8°C respectively), wherethe temperature was below average by more than 0.5°C.

In Africa and Australia, the greatest negative temperature departuresare found in south-western Madagascar (MRU-06, -1.1°C). In most other areas,the temperature was close to average and the departures were less than 1°C.

Figure 1.2. Global map of air temperature anomaly(as indicated by the TEMP indicator) by MRU, departure from 14YA, July-October2015 (degrees Celsius)