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Summer Warmest on Record, 2024 Heading Toward Hottest Ever: NOAA

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Summer Warmest on Record, 2024 Heading Toward Hottest Ever: NOAA
A lineman works on power lines under the morning sun, in Phoenix on July 12, 2024. Matt York/AP Photo
T.J. Muscaro
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The three-month span between June 1 and Aug. 31 was officially the world’s warmest on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

NOAA’s monthly climate update, released on Sept. 19, showed the average global land and ocean temperatures for that period—which marks the meteorological summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the meteorological winter in the Southern Hemisphere—were 2.23 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average.
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T.J. Muscaro
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T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.