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NOAA: Global Combined Land and Ocean Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest for September

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The worldwide ocean temperature tied with 2004 as the fifth warmest September on record, 0.90 °F (0.5 °C) Typhoon Ketsana became 2009’s second-deadliest tropical cyclone so far, claiming nearly 500 lives across the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. C) above the 20 th century average of 61.1 °F

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