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Article: IS GLOBAL WARMING TO BLAME? THE AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE ACTUALLY FELL BY A DEGREE LAST YEAR.(FORUM)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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Byline: WILLIAM D. BALGORD
The 2008 winter was among the coldest in 40 years - for the upper Midwest, the Plains States and much of central Canada.
Madison residents shoveled away a 117-year record snowfall (105 inches-plus) while Eau Claire recorded some 43 days of below-zero temperatures.
The opening of the locks to Mississippi barge traffic, delayed three weeks by ice, was the latest since the modern waterway opened in 1940.
The upper Midwest had an average temperature 6 degrees below normal throughout the month of May. Even the rash of recent severe weather can be traced to incursions from a cold air mass that continues to linger ...