Global land and ocean temperatures during November were 1.75 degrees Fahrenheit (0.97 degrees Celsius) above the twentieth-century average, making it the second-hottest November on record behind only 2015. It has been 44 years since the last time a November was below the twentieth-century average. When describing the global temperature patterns for a month that was almost the hottest on record, there’s going to be a lot of hot options to talk about. Exceptionally anomalous heat was observed across northern Asia, northern Europe, the Bering Sea, Australia, and parts of South America. Over 6% of the planet observed a record-warm November. And just like previous months, no area had record-cold November temperatures, even if locations in the eastern/central Pacific Ocean, southwestern Asia, and Canada observed a cooler-than-normal month.