"BWS" wrote in message
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Preliminary statistics for Coventry suggest an annual mean temperature for
2004 of 10.8C (+0.9C 0n 1971-2000 average).

2004 ranks 3rd in records back to 1892 as below

WARMEST COLDEST

11.1C 1990 8.3C 1963
10.9C 2002 8.5C 1962
10.8C 1989,2004 8.6C 1919,1956
10.7C 1921,1995,1997 8.7C 1917,1922,1950
10.6C 1998,1999 8.8C 1895,1940,1965,1969

Global warming?
--
Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry
www.nelink.co.uk/users/bws

In the wider Global field, according to:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/...onitoring.html

2004 will be Globally (preliminary with a few days left at time of report)
the 4th warmest after 2003 (3rd), 2002 (2nd) and 1998 (warmest of all to
date).

I noted it last year about this time and the trend has not changed so, with
a further year of measurement now added, is the rate of warming beginning
to slow?

--
Pete

Please take my dog out twice to e-mail

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