The planet added another warm month to a warm year, with October 2022 ranking as the world’s fourth-warmest October in 143 years.
The planet added another warm month to a warm year, with October 2022 ranking as the world’s fourth-warmest October in 143 years.
Notably, the Northern Hemisphere saw its second-warmest October and Europe saw its warmest October on record, according to scientists from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).
The average global temperature for October was 1.60 degrees F (0.89 of a degree C) above the 20th-century average of 57.1 degrees F (14.0 degrees C), ranking as the world’s fourth-warmest October on record behind 2015 (warmest), 2019 (second warmest) and 2018 (third warmest).
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An image of Hurricane Julia from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite from 4:30 pm Eastern on October 8, 2022. The storm made landfall in Nicaragua on October 9, displacing thousands of people and swamping some communities with more than a foot of rainfall. Julia was one of 15 named storms that formed in the tropics last month — the sixth-highest October count since 1981. (Photo Credit: NOAA)
