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January 11, 2008

UNH researchers: Northeast winters not what they were

ALBANY, N.Y. -- If you've thought Northeast winters aren't what they used to be, you're right.

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have measured just how mild winter is getting. Their study of weather station data from across the Northeast from 1965 through 2005 found temperatures from December through March increased by an average of 0.70 degrees a decade.

In New England, snowfall declined about 3 inches a decade.

The biggest snowfall decreases were in December and February.

And this past Tuesday, a record high for the day was set in Rhode Island, at 66 degrees. Weather experts said then that last year gave us the warmest January on record.

Before that it was 2006. Before that, it was 2005. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 11 of the warmest years since record keeping began have occurred in the past 12 years.

Meteorologists who have studied long-term climate trends said the observations appear to be in line with other research.

-- The Associated Press and projo.com reports

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