By Tom Yulsman | November 16, 2015
The first of several monthly climate analyses for October is out, and the news is sobering: Global average temperature across the land and seas skyrocketed compared to previous Octobers, shattering the previous record for warmth set just last year.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, this past October was the warmest in a record stretching back 1891, with a global average temperature for the month coming in at 0.85°C (1.53°F) above the 20th century average.
In the United States, NOAA and NASA will be coming out soon with their own independent analyses of the climate in October 2015.
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Global average temperature seems to be following the script written by the El Niño now underway. El Niño tends to increase global temperatures, and this one may go down as among the top three on record.
But this year’s El Niño warming is on top of what has occurred over the past century thanks to our emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-blogs/climatechange/october-sets-and-impressive-re/53652037
Highest Monthly Global Temperature Anomaly on Record
Nov. 16, 2015
NASA GISS has released their global land/ocean surface temperature data for October 2015.
According to NASA, October 2015 averaged 1.04 degrees Celsius (1.87 F) above the 1951-1980 mean, making October 2015 the warmest October on record by a large margin globally. The previous record for October was +0.86 C (1.55 F). set in October 2014. The highest anomaly during the strongest El Nino of 1997-98 was +0.88 C (1.58 F). El Nino's typically have a warming influence on the overall global temperature.
Even more impressive is the fact that the global land/ocean temperature anomaly for October 2014 (+1.04 C.) was the highest anomaly for any month of the year going all the way back to 1880 when records began. The previous highest anomaly was +0.97 C (1.75 F) set in January 2007.
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