Weather organizations from around the world agree that the planet's average global surface temperature in 2024 could well have passed a crucial threshold meant to limit the worst effects of climate change.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have released their annual assessment of global temperatures for 2024, providing crucial in

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

It’s official: 2024 was the planet’s warmest year on record, according to an analysis by scientists from NASA and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Below are highlights from NOAA’s 2024 annual global climate report:

WASHINGTON—According to data released today by independent U.S. government agencies NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2024 was the hottest year on record globally with ocean heat reaching record-breaking levels, as well.

For Toledo, 2024 was unofficially the warmest year on record, because missing data from August and December meant the National Weather Service couldn’t technically crown the past year. However, the First Alert Weather team used nearby data to fill in the gaps. As for the entire planet, NASA’s findings were very similar.

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Prolonged drought and powerful Santa Ana winds set up extreme conditions that have fueled the devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area. Those conditions were compounded by climate change. According to NOAA and NASA,

Earth's average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists.

NOAA and NASA said Friday that 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history, adding consensus to an earlier announcement by European scientists.

"Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880."

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