THE HISTORICAL CLIMATE DATA FOR YAKUTSK, RUSSIA, ONE OF THE COLDEST CITIES ON EARTH
This is a slightly revised version of the document posted earlier. (Sorry, wish I can figure out how to delete files that were uploaded in the earlier post, making this unnecessary!) The historical temperatures data for this city, recently featured in a Weather Channel article, is plotted in Figures 2 and 3. Classical statistical methods lead to the conclusion that the annual average temperature has been increasing. However, a more careful examination reveals the movement of the temperature data along the parallels seen in Figure 3. This means that the average annual temperature in 2013, although higher than in 196os, is actually lower than it would have been had the trend illustrated by the parallel V continued. The temperature-time data at the local level, here the coldest city on earth, thus reveals a work function (the nonzero intercept A) as with global average temperature data.
Here’s the link to the website from which the temperature data was obtained, http://www.tutiempo.net/en/Climate/Jakutsk/03-2013/249590.htm