This first appeared on my QTRS Sept 19, 2024 post at Briefed by Data. If you like data and graphs and are really curious, you should subscribe (for free) to Briefed by Data.
Here is your monthly global temperature anomaly update. A bit of a surprise that Aug 2024 was a record for August. Just barely, but yet a record. One month isn’t a trend, and there is a fair amount of variability in the data. In fact, we have two instances below where a La Niña year beat out the previous year that was an El Niño. Still, it is worth noting.