October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history
A woman is helped across a highway blocked by a landslide triggered by Hurricane Otis, near Acapulco, Mexico, Oct. 25, 2023. October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
FILE – A woman is helped across a highway blocked by a landslide triggered by Hurricane Otis, near Acapulco, Mexico, Oct. 25, 2023. October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
FILE – A woman is helped across a highway blocked by a landslide triggered by Hurricane Otis, near Acapulco, Mexico, Oct. 25, 2023. October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
FILE – A woman is helped across a highway blocked by a landslide triggered by Hurricane Otis, near Acapulco, Mexico, Oct. 25, 2023. October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)
This October was the hottest on record globally, 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average for the month — and the fifth straight month with such a mark in what will now almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded.
October was a whopping 0.
