This land surface temperature anomaly map spans the three months of meteorological winter: December 2008-February 2009.
Published May 9, 2009
Land surface temperatures across Europe and Russia were far below the 2000–2008 average in mid-December 2009.
Published Dec 25, 2009
April to September 2014 was the hottest spring and summer in 130 years of recordkeeping. Here’s why that matters, and why it doesn’t.
Published Oct 24, 2014
July 2012 was the world’s 4th hottest July recorded since 1880.
Published Aug 17, 2012
A chilly March ended a seventeen-month warm spell.
Published May 17, 2017
As of early January 2007, the 2006-2007 Northern Hemisphere winter was proving to be a mild one in terms of temperatures.
Published Jan 10, 2007
If you live in the northern hemisphere, the past few weeks have been strange. In places where it should be seasonably hot, it’s just warm. In places where weather is usually mild in the summer, it has been ridiculously hot.
Published Aug 8, 2014
The past five years have been the warmest of the past 140 years.
Published Jan 15, 2020Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Water Human Presence Remote Sensing Temperature Extremes
A NASA research analysis shows how much warmer the Earth has grown compared to an averaged base period from 1951 to 1980.
Published Jan 21, 2014
The average global temperature has increased by about 0.8°Celsius since 1880, and two-thirds of the warming occurred after 1975.
Published Dec 10, 2010
The Sun heats not only the air around us, but the land we walk on. Scientists are interested in the difference between the two.
Published May 2, 2012
This color-coded map shows global temperatures for May 2010. Although cool conditions prevailed in some heavily populated areas, warm conditions predominated, especially near the poles.
Published Jun 25, 2010
Almost all land surfaces on the planet experienced unusually warm temperatures.
Published Mar 17, 2016
Fires are raging in eastern Siberia in the midst of an unusually long-lived heat wave.
Published Jun 23, 2020Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Land Drought Fires Remote Sensing Temperature Extremes
In January 2016, a deep chill descended across eastern Asia, particular Mongolia.
Published Jan 30, 2016
The past five years have been the warmest years in the modern record, and 18 of the 19 warmest years have occurred since 2000.
Published Feb 6, 2019Image of the Day Atmosphere Heat Human Presence Remote Sensing Temperature Extremes
Unseasonably warm temperatures broke records across the United States.
Published Mar 21, 2012
