Weather.com - Jon Erdman, Updated 10/16/12
September 2012 land and sea-surface temperature percentiles. Areas in red were the warmest on record for September dating to 1880. Above and below-average temperatures shaded in orange and blue shadings, respectively. NCDC/NESDIS/NOAA
September 2012 tied the warmest September on record for the globe, according to a report released by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
The combined land and sea-surface temperature of the globe (61.3F/16.3C) tied the existing warmest September set in 2005, according to the latest State of the Climate Report released Monday.
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