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2012 appears headed into the record books as the warmest year in Albuquerque in more than a century of weather records, according to the National Weather Service. Data through Dec. 24 shows temperatures here 4 degrees F above the long term average. Clayton and Roswell, the New Mexico sites other than Albuquerque tracked closely by the Albuquerque Weather Service office, also are seeing their warmest years.
Here’s a graph of statewide temperatures from the National Climatic Data Center through November, showing the long term warming trend and the extreme outlier that is 2012:
New Mexico temperatures
I’ll have more on our remarkably warm, dry year in this weekend’s paper.
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