It's Official. Earth Just Had Its Hottest Month Ever Recorded

The findings verify preliminary data released several days ago by the NASA and the Japan Meteorological Administration.

Here’s what our super hot July looked like.

Photo: Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The year-to-date numbers are just as worrying.

The first seven months of 2015 were also the hottest first seven months of any year since 1880. The average temperature was 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average for January-through-July, and hotter than the previous hottest year (2010) by 0.16 degrees.

It might be a good idea for you to bookmark NOAA’s report so you have it handy in the winter, when people start saying things like, “What global warming. It’s freezing outside!”

By Timothy McGrath, GlobalPost
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