NOAA: Warmest May, spring, and Jan-May on record

Fast on the heels of the hottest April and hottest Jan-April in NOAA's record, the National Climatic Data Center has published its monthly "State of the Climate Report."  It pretty much matches the NASA data.

The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for May, March-May (Northern Hemisphere spring-Southern Hemisphere autumn), and the period January-May.

The warming in May is greatest precisely where climate science suggested it would be — the high ...