NASA: 2017 likely to be 2nd warmest year on record
By Jonathan Erdman, Weather Channel
Global temperatures are on pace to make 2017 the second warmest year in 137 years of record keeping, according analyses by NASA and the Japanese Meteorological Agency.
October 2017 was the second warmest October in records dating to 1880, according to data released by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Only 2015 had a warmer October in NASA’s analysis than 2017.
The first 10 months of 2017 as a whole rank second warmest only to 2016, according to NASA and JMA.