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Index of Subjects <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Occasionally, in a weather forecast, we see numbers quoted as "the normal temperatures for today", "the normal high for today", etc. These are long-term average temperatures for a given reporting station, with quite a lot of mathematics applied to smooth out the daily variations.<br> <br> I have a table of these Climate Normals for Shearwater Airport, just outside Dartmouth. The normal temperatures for today and tomorrow are the low point of the annual cycle: the normal maximum at Shearwater is about -1 C and the minimum is -10 C.<br> <br> Starting Monday, the normals begin their slow climb back up again, and we are on our way out of the depths of winter. Can Spring be far away?<br> <br> Peter Payzant<br> <br> <br> </font></font> </body> </html>
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