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May 2024: Earth’s 12th-consecutive warmest month on record
May 2024 was Earth’s warmest May since global record-keeping began in 1850 and was the planet’s 12th consecutive warmest month on record, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported June 13. Record heat was unusually widespread …