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2018 Likely Hottest Year On Record For New Zealand
A veteran climate scientist has called 2018 our hottest year on record.
Niwa isn't due to release its official summary for the year until early next week, but Professor Jim Salinger has already picked it the warmest on records stretching back to 1867.
His calculations put 2018's mean annual land surface temperatures at 13.5C – or 0.85C above the 1981-2010 average.
His figure also surpassed the scorching years of 1998 and 2016, which were 0.80C and 0.84C above normal respectively.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12184584
