2015 Heating Up To Be Earth’s Warmest Year On Record
November 18, 2015 According to the latest “State of the Climate” summary from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, October 2015 will go down as the hottest October ever — by a significant margin.
The October average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.76°F above the 20th century average. This was the highest for October on record, surpassing the previous record set last year by 0.36°F. This record departure from average also was the highest on record for any month.
This occurrence is becoming a trend as this marks the sixth consecutive month a monthly global temperature record has been broken. Such a streak is helping to solidify 2015’s chances to overthrow 2014 as the planet’s warmest year on record.
The high heat marks are not just limited to land either. Across the globe, the average sea surface temperature was 1.53°F above the 20th century average.
This was the highest temperature for October in the 1880-2015 record surpassing the previous record set last year by 0.27°F.
This also was the highest departure from average for any of the 1,630 months of recordkeeping, surpassing the previous record set last month by 0.07°F.
Loading ...With strong El Niño conditions in place, sea surface temperatures during October 2015 were well above the 1981–2010 average across the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, according to analysis by the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC).
The CPC expects this El Niño to likely peak during the Northern Hemisphere winter 2015-2016 and transition to neutral conditions during late spring or early summer 2016.
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