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Warmest September on record

September was the warmest September on record.

…and 2014 is likely to become the warmest year on record, measurements from NASA show.

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American Arctic, northern Europe, Antarctic, northern Africa and western Australia and the inland of South-America had temperatures reaching up to 4°C above the 1951 to 1980 average, shows a GISS surface temperature analysis recently published by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

The global average temperature was more than o,5 degrees Celsius higher this September than the recorded average.

Like August, September became the warmest September ever in recorded history. The previous record was set in 2005, according to information from Climate Central.

Historical temperature records date back to1880.

Researcher Jake Crounch with the U.S. National Climate Data Centre (NCDC) told the Climate Central after August’s record-breaking warmth was announced that “if we continue a consistent departure from average for the rest of 2014, we will edge out 2010 as the warmest year on record.”

In the Barents Region, August had record peak temperatures several places. For the first time ever, temperatures of more than 30°C were measured in Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost county, in August.

On August 4th, Pasvik in Finnmark had 30,4°C. Ivalo in northern Finland had 31,2°C and Murmansk on Russia’s Kola Peninsula measured 29°C.