NASA - First 8 Months Of 2015 By Far Hottest First 8 Months On Record

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NASA reports that this was the hottest start to any year on record by far. This was the hottest August by far in the dataset of the Japan Meteorological Agency, and close to tied with 2014 for hottest August in the NASA dataset.

With the underlying long-term warming trend adding to the short-term warming from the strongest El Niño since the big one of 1997-1998, you can bet the house that this will be the hottest year on record by far.

Different climate-tracking groups around the world use different data sets, so they can show different results for a given month. The Japan Meteorological Agency is a World Meteorological Organization Regional Climate Center of excellence.

Here is the horserace chart — the running year-to-date average temperature — for the past two decades, from HotWhopper.



EDIT

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/14/3701298/august-2015-record-warmth/