Where's the global temperature – Is it massive December cooling?

A long time ago, as I watched HADCRUT3 global temperature, I began to realise that whenever the month was particularly cold globally, that the release of that information would be delayed.
Today, I realised when discussing temperature, that I hadn’t heard anything of the usual “warmest evah” for 2016 nor had anyone reported on the latest temperature for December.
So, thinking I must have missed it, I went to search – but nothing can be found.
Possibilities:

  1. Everyone got so drunk over Xmas/Newyear that they are incapable of producing the temperature.
  2. There’s been a massive rise in temperature – but they don’t want to spoil the festive season for us sceptics.
  3. There’s been a massive cooling of the temperature due to the La Nina conditions, and as I learnt from HADCRUT3, they are already planning a massive publicity campaign to try to avert the PR disaster.

So, it’s not impossible we’ve had a massive cooling in December, which could well knock 2016 off the “Warmest evah” perch.

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