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

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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. Antarctic sea ice extent in September was 2.2% above the 1979-2000 average.

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