World's hottest year and yet it is cool today

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emperatures here in Shepparton today have a distinct wintery sense about them – it’s colder than expected for this time of the year.

What we are experiencing here is, of course, weather as opposed to climate, which is now poised to produce hottest year ever recorded.

EcoWatch reports: “The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced today that 2015 is likely to top the charts as the hottest year in modern observations, with 2011-15 the hottest five-year period on record.

“With two full months still to add in, the global average surface temperature for January to October in 2015 was 0.73C above the 1961-1990 average. This already puts it a long way above 2014, in which average global temperature reached 0.57C above the 1961-1990 average.”

Read the EcoWatch story - “2015 Hottest Year Ever Recorded … Until 2016, UN Weather Agency Reports.”