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RECORD COLD IN THE ERA OF GLOBAL WARMING
NEW ZEALAND
May the coldest on record, Niwa figures show
Matt Stewart | 10th July 2009
Wairarapa certainly played its part in the record-breaking chill that gripped the country during May, with Martinborough plunged into gloom courtesy of a paltry 92 hours of sunshine.
Niwa senior climate scientist Georgina Griffiths said May "broke records from one end of the country to the other - it was the coldest May on record", and there was nothing much to toast in the South Wairarapa wine village, which registered 69 percent of normal sunshine hours for May - the lowest figure for the town since records began.
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