ICYMI: 2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year on Record
February 4, 2020 No, you weren’t imaging things. Last year was hot — very hot, according to climatologists at NOAA. In fact, 2019 was the second-hottest year in NOAA’s 140-years of recordkeeping — second only to 2016.
The average temperature across the globe in 2019 was 1.71°F above the 20th-century average and just 0.07°F cooler than the 2016 record.
During the year, parts of Central Europe, Asia, southern Africa, New Zealand, North America, Central and South America, as well as Australia (which has been in the news recently for massive brushfires) experienced record-high average land temperatures.
Other reporting agencies agree with NOAA’s findings. Scientists from the United Kingdom Met Office concluded that 2019 was one of its top-three hottest years on record, and the World Meteorological Organization also ranked 2019 second warmest for the globe.
To put an exclamation on it all, NASA found that 2010-2019 was the hottest decade ever recorded!
NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information notes the world’s five warmest years have all occurred since 2015, with nine of the 10 warmest years occurring since 2005.
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