January 2008 Hottest Ever Recorded In Australia - Sydney Morning Herald

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AUSTRALIA had its hottest January on record, in line with a pattern that has seen the country's average temperature rise over the past five decades under the impact of global warming.

"Nearly the whole country has been hotter than average for daytime and night-time temperatures in January," David Jones, the head of climate analysis at the Bureau of Meteorology, said yesterday. "It's not so much a few places breaking records by large margins. It's nearly the whole country being one to two degrees warmer than average".

The average temperature across the country rose 1.3 degrees last month, but large areas, especially in the Pilbara in Western Australia and in Central Australia, recorded temperatures three to four degrees above average.

"We just continue to get a stream of these records being broken," said Dr Jones, who has analysed Australia's rising temperature going back almost 60 years. "The general pattern is one of warming. We have now warmed up by a degree since 1950. The effects of global warming have been felt across Australia as a whole. And the pattern of warming across Australia is very consistent with the

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/into-the-fire-last-month-hottest-january-so-far/2008/01/31/1201714150490.html

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1. This is the first January in 75 years that New York City has not

had any measurable snow.
I don't have a link for it; heard it on the news. I can vouch for the fact that we did not have any snow this month.
This is scarey.