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

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Warmer-than-normal conditions also prevailed across Europe, most of Asia and Australia. This was the third largest September extent on record, behind 2006 and 2007. Typhoon Ketsana became 2009’s second-deadliest tropical cyclone so far, claiming nearly 500 lives across the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

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