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To: Road Walker who wrote (113607)	5/31/2000 6:44:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573841

For the doubters... Midsummer Heat Didn't Wait By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The first five months of 2000 have been the warmest on record in Albuquerque, and the trend continued Tuesday with another record high. The thermometer hit 97 in Albuquerque, according to the National Weather Service, breaking the old record of 94 set in 1958, and highs in the middle 90s are expected again today. A high pressure ridge of air is sitting atop the Southwest, creating a textbook late-June heat wave a month early, said Charlie Liles, head of the Weather Service's Albuquerque office. The record heat here follows a trend being seen around the globe, according to University of New Mexico climate researcher Dave Gutzler. "Something's up," Gutzler said. In Albuquerque, the average of daytime highs and nighttime lows from January through May 29 was 52.5, 4 degrees above normal, according to weather records going back to 1892. Five of the six warmest January-May periods on record for Albuquerque have come since 1986. The current warm spell stretches back to this past winter, said Kelly Redmond, a drought expert at the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nev. "It's just really strange for it to be so warm for so long," Redmond said Tuesday. And we're not alone. This year saw the warmest January-April, averaged across the United States, since record keeping began a century ago, according to researchers at the federal government's National Climatic Data Center. And the same thing is being seen around the globe. "The surface of the planet seems to be warming up very rapidly," Gutzler said. Gutzler said there is not enough evidence to blame the global heat wave with any certainty on a human-caused greenhouse effect. But it is hard to come up with another explanation, he said. abqjournal.com Scumbria