Global temperatures in October, as well as the entire year-to-date, were the planet’s hottest on average since record-keeping began in 1880, the US government says.
It was also the 38th consecutive October in which global average temperatures were higher than the average for the 20th century, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported.
“The January-October combined global land and ocean average surface temperature was the warmest such period on record, surpassing the previous record set in 1998 and 2010,” NOAA said.
The combined average temperature over land and ocean surfaces in October was 14.74 degrees Celsius, which beat the previous record for the month by 0.01 degrees Celsius.
Warmer than average temperatures were recorded over most of the Earth’s land surface, except for large parts of Central Asia
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