Rising Temperatures: A Month Versus a Decade

April to September 2014 was the hottest spring and summer in 130 years of recordkeeping. Here’s why that matters, and why it doesn’t.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Rising Temperatures: A Month Versus a Decade.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Kevin Ward based on data from the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published October 24, 2014
Data acquired April 1 - September 30, 2014