Although we are a few days away from the end of the month, it is
likely that the 12 month period which began at the start of July 2011 to
the end of June 2012 will go down as the warmest in the almost 100
years of recorded weather data in the region.
Until recently the warmest 12 month period in the
region happened to be the calendar year of 1998 when the average
temperature was 8.98 degrees. The last 12 months will be around 9.30 degrees depending on how these last few days play out. By the way the 1971-2000 average annual temperature is 6.7 degrees.
With the warm
winter we had, combined with the record breaking extremely hot March
puts the average for the July 2011 to June 2012 period at 9.30 degrees.
This solidly beats the old record.
The last time we had a colder than average month was back in March of 2011.
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You keep comparing temperatures to the "1971-2000 average".
Are you ever going to update the "average" to include any of the last 12 years?
Bring on more of it! We've been the coldest 43.5 deg N latitude location (near sea level) on the planet for far too long.
1971-2000 is the Environment Canada standard. A few months ago I notified them of a typo in the records for one of their weather stations and they said that they were currently concentrating on producing the 1981-2010 averages rather than fixing errors in the tables, so I guess the updated averages will be out soonish....
Thanks for the info. I was not aware that the date range was a "standard".
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