Earth Has its Warmest Summer and August on Record - will 2014 be the hottest year
on record?
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2803
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August 2014 and the summer of 2014 were Earth's warmest since records began in 1880, said NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) today. NASA also rated August 2014 as the warmest August on record. August is the third time NOAA has ranked a 2014 month as the warmest on record; May and June 2014 were the warmest May and June on record (April 2014 was originally ranked as tied for warmest April on record, but has since been revised downwards to the second warmest April on record.) Global ocean temperatures during August 2014 were the warmest on record, and the 0.65°C (1.17°F) ocean temperature anomaly was the highest ever measured, beating the record set just two months previously in June 2014. Global land temperatures in August 2014 were the 2nd warmest on record. The first eight months of 2014 (January–August) were the third warmest such period on record for the globe, with an average temperature 0.68°C (1.22°F) above 20th century average. If 2014 maintains this temperature departure from average for the remainder of the year, it will be the warmest year on record. Global satellite-measured temperatures in August 2014 for the lowest 8 km of the atmosphere were the 14th or 8th warmest in the 36-year record, according to Remote Sensing Systems and the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH), respectively. Wunderground's weather historian Christopher C. Burt details the notable global extreme weather events of August 2014 in his latest post.
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