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Jan 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM EDT
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Jan 5, 2011 at 5:50 PM EDT
As the Northeast hunkers down for winter, hot-weather worshippers can take heart: New Hampshire, Rhode Island and a handful of New England cities from Hartford and Boston to Caribou, Maine, are coming off their warmest year on record.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - As the Northeast hunkers down for winter, hot-weather worshippers can take heart: New Hampshire, Rhode Island and a handful of New England cities from Hartford and Boston to Caribou, Maine, are coming off their warmest year on record.
Climatologists at Cornell University say Wednesday that 23 of the 35 cities they monitor in 12 northeastern states had an average temperature in 2010 that ranked among the 10 hottest on record.
In most cases, that means the 2010 temperature was just fractions of a degree warmer than previous records. In Caribou, though, the 44.2-degree mark was almost 2 points above the record set in 2006.
Overall, researchers said 2010 was the fifth warmest year in the Northeast since record-keeping began.
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