These maps compare January minimum temperatures and July maximum temperatures in the U.S. Climate Normals, a 30-year frame of reference. The new normal reflects a warming world.
Published Jul 6, 2011
Temperatures were well above the norm for the month, setting records and rising well above the long-term trends.
Published Apr 17, 2012
Weather records fell across the northeastern United States and Canada’s Ontario and Maritime provinces.
Published Nov 16, 2017
England, Scotland, and Wales all recorded their warmest winter day ever in February 2019.
Published Mar 5, 2019
Unseasonably warm temperatures broke records across the United States.
Published Mar 21, 2012
In the summer of 2016, extreme heat waves gripped Siberia, the Middle East, and North America.
Published Aug 11, 2016
The small town of Eagle was hotter on May 23 than it has been on any day in Houston or Dallas this year.
Published May 27, 2015
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
Though the talk in much of the United States was about polar vortices and wicked cold snaps, the wider world was actually warmer than normal.
Published Mar 20, 2014
Analysis of global temperatures shows that the year was the 9th hottest in the past 130 years. Nine of the ten warmest years have occurred since 2000.
Published Jan 20, 2012
