All-time monthly and October global surface temperature records that were just set in the NASA GISS database have now been set in the NOAA and JMA databases.
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With only two months left in the year, there is a 99.9 percent chance that 2015 will best 2014 as the warmest year on record, according to Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, which keeps their temperature records.
For the month of October, the average temperature across Earth was a record breaking 0.98 degrees Celsius warmer than normal – the greatest above-average departure from average for any month.
Both NOAA and the Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) have confirmed that last month was the warmest October on record.
It was Earth’s warmest October ever recorded and it wasn’t even close. Well, if you would, I’m sure you have also loved the summer this year, because it was the hottest one ever recorded. It was also the month with the highest temperature departure compared to any month going back to 1880 and 1891 respectively.
“It might be that next year would fall short of the records we’ve set the last two years, but it will start out strong and will probably be well above normal”, he said.
In total, eight of the first 10 months in 2015 have been record warm for their respective months.
Sutter – who pulled reports from the National Research Council, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the World Bank – says wildfires in the United States could significantly increase in size, hurricanes would be slightly more intense, more species would be at risk for extinction, Arctic ice would continue to melt, crop yields would decrease and the availability of freshwater would significantly decline. By early October, the band of hot water stretching across the Pacific Ocean had strengthened to heat levels not seen since a particularly strong El Niño in 1997.
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Only a few spots were cooler than average in October: Argentina, part of northeastern Canada, scattered regions of western and central Russian Federation and central Japan. That record was set in 2014.
