Mr. Math Center

The first official 🦃 occurred before scientists started tracking global temperatures, but with global warming, it's no surprise the November record shows an upward trend 📈

As noted before, brief cooling periods happened as a result of large volcanic eruptions.

👉 : In the natural sciences, the word "anomaly" (as seen in the graphic) refers to a measurement that is different from an expected trend.

In this case, the plot's data points are compared with data from 1951 to 1980, which is NASA's reference baseline.

👉 Also, the "LOWESS Smooth," or "LOESS Smooth" (orange line), helps you see a general trend line among "noisy" data points.