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To a year of disturbing events, here’s one more to add: 2020 was the second-warmest year on record. That, at least, is the latest from the Burlington station of the National Weather Service, which reports that five of the past 10 years all now rank in the top 10 in mean average temperature.
The mean average temperature in 2020 was 49.4 degrees, 3.4 degrees above the historical mean average of 46 degrees and only half a degree below the record 49.9 degrees in 2012.
Nor might it be surprising to learn after reports of how local farmers struggled with a pronounced lack of rain this past summer that 2020 was also the second-driest since 2012, according to the NWS, which recorded 31.38 inches of precipitation at its monitoring station at Burlington International Airport, 5.44 inches below normal.