Data out this week from NASA shows that May set another worldwide temperature record, as has been the case for each month of 2016 and the end of 2015.
The temperature for the month was 0.93 degrees Celsius, or 1.67 degrees Fahrenheit, above May’s average from 1951 to 1980, according to Climate Central. That, though, was the lowest temperature increase since September of last year.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is due Thursday to release its own update for May. Last month, the agency announced that April 2016 was the warmest April on record globally, 1.1 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average.
Should NOAA identify May as a new high temperature for the month, this would represent the 13th consecutive such monthly finding, Climate Central reported.
It appears increasingly probably that 2016 will have the highest temperature on record, according to the report.
