August marks 16 consecutive months of record-breaking heat for the globe

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201608

The State of the Climate Summary Information is a synopsis of the collection of national and global summaries released each month.
[This is from the global summary report for August, 2016]

August marks 16 consecutive months of record-breaking heat for the globe

June–August and January–August were also record warm

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The August temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.66°F above the 20th century average of 60.1°F. This was the highest for August in the 1880–2016 record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 by 0.09°F. August 2016 was the highest monthly temperature departure since April 2016 and tied with September 2015 as the eighth highest monthly temperature departure among all months (1,640) on record. Overall, 14 of the 15 highest monthly temperature departures in the record have occurred since February 2015, with January 2007 also among the 15 highest monthly temperature departures.

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