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

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
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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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