Please explain

Maximum/minimum temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years.

In SunLive's ‘Weather Eye' blog, it states: 'The average afternoon February temperature for the 49 years from 1963-2011 is 24.0 degrees Celsius; this is just 0.3 degrees Celsius higher than the average afternoon February temperature for the 49 years from 1914-1962.

'The seven ‘warmest' February months (in terms of afternoon temperatures) on record, in chronological order, are: 1916, 1928, 1954, 1955, 1998, 2011, 2019.”

I'm a bit puzzled. I note that five of the seven warmest February months recorded were in the last century.

Would someone who knows what they are talking about please explain to me how this (0.3 Celsius increase over a century of recordings) fits with the current presentation of global warming? Perhaps Tauranga is just the place to be to avoid it.

D Goodyear, Welcome Bay.

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