NASA: Easily the hottest spring — and Jan-May — in temperature record - Plus another record 12-month global temperature

Lmonth tied May 1998 as the hottest on record in the NASA dataset.  More significantly, following fast on the heels of easily the hottest April — and hottest Jan-April — on record, it's also the hottest Jan-May on record [click on figure to enlarge:].

Also, the combined land-surface air and sea-surface water temperature anomaly for March-April-May was 0.73°C above the 1951-1980 mean, blowing out the old record of 0.65°C set in 2002.

The record temperatures we're seeing now are especially...