August Global Data Released
The National Climatic Data Center just released the global temperature data for this past August and the boreal summer (Jun-Aug).
According to the Smith and Reynolds temperature analysis, the combined land/sea global temperature anomaly for August 2008 was 10th warmest on record (tied with 1995).
The land/sea global temperature anomaly for the boreal summer (June/July/Aug) was 9th warmest on record. Records for both go back to 1880.






