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National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC May 4, 1998 
 Based on land-surface temperature observations going back to 1982, the global area-averaged mean temperature for January-April 1998 is the *****warmest on record. This period for 1998 is indeed slightly warmer than the previous record high in 1990. But the global area-averaged January-April 1998 temperature is definitely much warmer than that of earlier decades. Early indications suggest that when ocean data are included, the January-April 1998 period was also the warmest for both land and ocean....the data values
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