Washington:
The previous month was the second warmest May on record since 1880, with the average temperature worldwide climbing up by 0.66 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average of 14.8 degrees Celsius, according to a US scientific agency.
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) records show that much of the world, including nearly all of Europe, Asia, northern Africa, most of North America and southern Greenland experienced above average temperatures for the month of May.
The NOAA global May record included the combined global land and ocean average surface temperatures for the month, which was 0.66 degrees Celsius above the 20th-century average of 14.8C.
This is the second warmest May since records began in 1880, behind only 2010, when the global average was 0.69 C above the 20th-century average.
With an average combined global temperature of -0.49 C, 1907 was the coolest year on record, the NOAA data shows.
According to the records, the Northern Hemisphere saw its warmest May on record -- 0.85 C above average -- while the Southern Hemisphere's May ranked ninth warmest among all Mays on record, at 0.47 C above average.
It wasn't, however, unusually warm everywhere. Australia, Alaska and parts of the western US-Canadian border were notably cooler than average. The snow cover on the Northern Hemisphere was significantly below average in May, it said.
Last month, according to NOAA, was in fact the warmest spring on record for the continental US. And globally, this spring ranked as the fourth warmest.
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) records show that much of the world, including nearly all of Europe, Asia, northern Africa, most of North America and southern Greenland experienced above average temperatures for the month of May.
The NOAA global May record included the combined global land and ocean average surface temperatures for the month, which was 0.66 degrees Celsius above the 20th-century average of 14.8C.
This is the second warmest May since records began in 1880, behind only 2010, when the global average was 0.69 C above the 20th-century average.
With an average combined global temperature of -0.49 C, 1907 was the coolest year on record, the NOAA data shows.
According to the records, the Northern Hemisphere saw its warmest May on record -- 0.85 C above average -- while the Southern Hemisphere's May ranked ninth warmest among all Mays on record, at 0.47 C above average.
It wasn't, however, unusually warm everywhere. Australia, Alaska and parts of the western US-Canadian border were notably cooler than average. The snow cover on the Northern Hemisphere was significantly below average in May, it said.
Last month, according to NOAA, was in fact the warmest spring on record for the continental US. And globally, this spring ranked as the fourth warmest.
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