It’s official: 2015 was the warmest year on record across the globe.
The global temperature in 2015 was 1.62 degrees above the 20th century average, outpacing the previous record set in 2014, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday. The recorded weather history goes back to 1880.
According to NOAA, last year broke the previous high temperature record by 0.29 degrees, which is the biggest margin by which the global temperature record has been broken.
The record for warmest year on record has been broken four times since the turn of the century.
According to the government scientists, land-surface temperature was 2.39 degrees above the 20th century average and global sea-surface temperatures were 1.33 degrees above the 20th century average.
Many regions of the globe experienced record warmth. Central America, the northern part of South America, parts of northern, southern and eastern Europe, western Asia and large section of eastern central Siberia, parts of eastern and southern Africa, large parts of the Pacific, much of the western North Atlantic, most of the Indian Ocean and parts of the Arctic Ocean all experienced record warmth.
NOAA announced earlier this year that 2015 was the second-warmest year on record in the United States.
