Yesterday NOAA released their latest global climate summary for July 2015. The summary showed that for global temperatures, this year’s July was the warmest in the 136-year instrumental record. The average January through July global temperature was also the hottest in the 136-year record.
On the NOAA webinar yesterday, scientists noted that with the El Nino still developing in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 2015 as a whole is highly likely (better than 99%) to be the warmest year ever recorded.
Here’s a link to a Yahoo News story on this topic https://news.yahoo.com/feeling-heat-earth-july-hottest-month-record-150129081.html.
Here in the Southeast, we were about 1.3 degrees above normal, which is categorized as “much above normal” in the map below.
