From: "Geo." 

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:45a39164$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> "Preliminary data from the National Climatic Data Center listed the
> average
> temperature for the 48 contiguous states last year as 55 degrees
> Fahrenheit.
> That's 2.2 degrees warmer than average and 0.07 degree warmer than 1998,
> the
> previous warmest year on record."
>
> Wakey wakey.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/ushcn/mean2.5X3.5_pg.gif

Oh yeah, the pattern is so clear I don't know how I missed it.

Geo.

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