NOAA reports 2010 hottest year on record so far - Summer 2010 the second warmest on record; hottest August in RSS satellite record*

Following fast on the heels of NASA reporting the hottest January to August on record, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center  has released its State of the Climate: Global Analysis for August.

NOAA reports the details (and the graphic):

The first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record worldwide. Meanwhile, the June–August summer was the second warmest on record globally after 1998, and last month was the...