in
northern Europe. As a first illustration, Fig. 1.1 shows alternative probability distributions of
December mean temperature for Helsinki, Finland. The first
one (blue line) is estimated
directly from the observations for 1961-1990, the official WMO normal period. The second
one (in green), was obtained by extending the observational baseline by 18 years, up to the
year 2008. This should yield
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