"David Buttery" wrote in message
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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:24:28 -0800, Dawlish wrote:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporat...20091210b.html
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I can't say I'm too fond of the phrasing of this bit, dealing with 2009:

"Recently released figures confirm that 2009 is expected to be the fifth-
warmest year in the instrumental record that dates back to 1850."

I seem to remember saying this last year, but I really do wish the Met
Office would wait until 1 Jan 2010 before telling us how warm 2009 was!


I wonder if the very cold conditions over a lot of Europe/Russia expected in
the next half of the month will make a difference or do the El Nino SSTs
dominate? I would prefer to see land figures only when talking about
warmest/coldest as that's where humans live - on land. Are there any
datasets available for land only?

Will
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