Hottest Northern Summer on Record
The Northern Hemisphere summer of 2014 was the hottest since record keeping began in 1880, according to the U.S. agency NOAA.
While most highly populated areas escaped excessive heat, the global average temperature in the hottest month of August was 61.36 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the previous record set in 1998.
August was unusually hot around the Pacific and Indian oceans and in Africa, but cooler in parts of the United States, Europe and Australia.
The world’s oceans in August basically tied June for being the all-time hottest.
August was the 354th consecutive month that temperatures worldwide were above the 20th-century average.
The warming has been so pronounced for nearly 100 years that the last time the world set a monthly record for being the coldest was back in 1916.
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