2010 was hottest year in Israel’s recorded history

03.01.2011                     27.Tevet, 5771

Umwelt:

2010 was hottest year in Israel’s recorded history

Also one of the driest years, with no rainfall in November.

The year 2010 was the hottest by a large margin since records began being kept in Israel, with temperatures two to three degrees hotter than the average, according to the Israel Meteorological Service’s year-end summary.
What’s more, temperatures were one to one-and-a-half degrees Celsius higher than the next hottest year, a striking statistic, according to the IMS. Most years, the average temperatures fall within 0.1- .0.3 degrees of other years….