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Veronica
As Pearland Aggie says, a lot of this effect is due to the map projection used.
It’s probably a small campfire from somebody’s polar bear hunting expedition.
Not sure what this means....but WUWT thought enough of it to post it!
Yep. Map projection + its a % deviation from norm, not an actual temperature.
You mean Mister Mercator’s projection distorts everything except the equitorial regions; progressively magnifying and distorting areas, the closer to the poles one gets?
Golly, wonder why they don’t teach this in schools....
I would love to see the same data plotted on an equiareal projection.