Longest 'warmest months on record' likely

In two weeks, we’ll know whether the Earth has tied the longest streak of “warmest months on record” in its modern history.

By then, my colleagues at the National Centers for Environmental Information will have ingested and analyzed the February 2016 data, compared it to history, and published their findings.

As of the end of January, we’d seen nine straight “warmest months” – each month from May 2015 through January 2016 was the warmest on record for that month. This streak matches a nine-month run from June 1997 through February 1998.

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