This is the global surface temperature departure from the 1961-1990 average, also from the CRU at East Anglia. (Despite all the climategate hubbub, this is still the reference standard in the business).

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Those lowest average fares increased the following week by 5% from the low, and fares in the final week before departure shot up by 30% from the low.

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