2020 was the second hottest year on record according to NOAA.
All of the top ten warmest years on record since the late 1800s have occurred since 2005. The top five have all been since 2015. Every year since 1977 has been warmer than the 20
th Century average. You get the idea.
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Map of 2020 annual average temperature anomalies from the NOAAGlobalTemps data
Three new feature layers are available from the NOAAGlobalTemp dataset: the latest monthly temperature analysis, the full monthly archive from 1880 – present, and the annual average from 1880 – present. All of them compare the observed temperature to the 1971-2000 base period (so -2