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January was rather cold in the UK. But across the whole of the world, January was warmer than usual. Why?
According to provisional figures from the Met Office, the Britain’s national weather service, January 2010 was the eighth coldest on record for the UK – the worst since 1987. A swath of northern Europe and parts of the US also experienced unseasonably cold temperatures.
And yet, explains Met Office research scientist David Parker, many areas, including large parts of South America, Africa, Asia, and Canada, had a warmer January than usual.
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Source: news.bbc.co.uk