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November 30, 2006

Warm days weren't your imagination

This month has been the warmest November in Rhode Island in nearly 60 years and the second-warmest on record.

The average temperature last month at T.F. Green Airport, as of Wednesday, was 48.9 degrees, which was 4.9 degrees higher than normal, according to the National Weather Service.

Only one other November on record was warmer. November 1948 had an average temperature of 49.8 degrees.

Those higher temperatures translated into a reduction in heating costs by an average of 24 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

“Part of the reason is the unseasonably-cold air has been locked up in western Canada,” said Neal Strauss, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Taunton, Mass. He also suggested that global warming may be a factor.

“If you just go back to 1990, we’re headed in a direction that would indicate global warming,” Strauss said. Six of the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since 1990.

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-- Journal staff writer Timothy C. Barman

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