Comments on: A quick response to concerns over GOM SSTs http://eyeofthestorm.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/a-quick-response-to-concerns-over-gom-ssts/ The blog of Charles Fenwick Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:00:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Brendan Loy http://eyeofthestorm.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/a-quick-response-to-concerns-over-gom-ssts/#comment-11 Brendan Loy Wed, 10 May 2006 20:17:19 +0000 https://eyeofthestorm.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/a-quick-response-to-concerns-over-gom-ssts/#comment-11 Charles, I don't often have occasion to correct you, as you're way more knowledgeable than me about this stuff... but for once, just this once, I'm right and you're wrong! :) Look at the SCALE on those two images, April and May, that you put side-by-side. The difference in colors has nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with the scale changing on May 1 in 2006 (but not in 2005 - presumably because the temps were lower so they didn't need to change it). That said, I do appreciate your insight about variability of these things, and the other measures we should be looking at. I will probably post something about this later. But wanted to give you a heads up about the scale. I would have gotten confused about that, too, if the guy who tipped me off to the maps in the first place hadn't pointed it out. Charles, I don’t often have occasion to correct you, as you’re way more knowledgeable than me about this stuff… but for once, just this once, I’m right and you’re wrong! :) Look at the SCALE on those two images, April and May, that you put side-by-side. The difference in colors has nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with the scale changing on May 1 in 2006 (but not in 2005 – presumably because the temps were lower so they didn’t need to change it).

That said, I do appreciate your insight about variability of these things, and the other measures we should be looking at. I will probably post something about this later. But wanted to give you a heads up about the scale. I would have gotten confused about that, too, if the guy who tipped me off to the maps in the first place hadn’t pointed it out.

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