NASA Finds Summer 2024 Hottest to Date
11 Sep 2024, 19:12 GMT
By Jennifer R. Marder
Topic: Earth
Source URL: https://www.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-finds-summer-2024-hottest-to-date/
The agency also shared new state-of-the-art datasets that allow scientists to track Earth’s temperature for any month and region going back to 1880 with greater certainty. August 2024 set a new monthly temperature record, capping Earth’s hottest summer since global records began in 1880, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)