On Feb 25, 7:45*am, Paul Hyett wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 at 10:59:59, Dawlish wrote in
uk.sci.weather :

January's global temperature measures are completed by Hadley - last,
but earlier than usual, it has to be said!

January came out at +0.47C, 4th warmest in their 160-year series.

Who on earth got the hot January weather, then??
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

It does seem odd when we've had a colder winter Paul, I agree. The
answer to your question is; "the rest of the world apart from the few
colder areas" - the largest of which, by far, was Eurasia. In the
Southern Hemisphere, it was the warmest January ever. Some areas in
the Northern hemisphere, eg N. Nigeria, Greece and British Columbia
recorded record temperatures during January and, despite what one on
here believes, the NE of the USA had a warmer than average January.

The dot maps on the NOAA site are helpful, but there are other maps of
January temperatures avainlable. Go to "Global analysis" on the drop
down menu if the link takes you to the front page.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/?repor...d=Get+Rep ort