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Subject: New Normal Temperature Maps
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:40:20 -0500 (CDT)
From: Linda R Zellmer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps-L <[log in to unmask]>


Hello,

I monitor several blogs and RSS feeds. Today, there is an item from Dan
Satterfield's weather blog (in the AGU Blogosphere) which includes
temperature maps of interest:

"A  big piece of news came from the NOAA Nat. Climate Data Center, who
had an update on the new normals that will be released starting July
first. You have likely seen on TV weather reports the normal high or low
for the day and how the rainfall for the month compares to the average.
Those averages are recalculated once every ten years using data from the
previous 30 years. This is the standard set by the World Meteorological
Org. and is used almost world-wide."

The full post (with maps showing the difference between the old normal
temperatures and the new normal temperatures) is available at:
http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2011/06/27/the-new-normal-and-yes-its-hotter/

Linda Zellmer

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