NOAA’s latest global climate summary for September 2015 was released this morning.  According to the report, September 2015 was the warmest September in 136 years of record, and the January through September period was also the warmest on record for the globe.  Of the last nine months, seven were the warmest on record, January was the second warmest, and April the third warmest.  This makes it virtually certain that 2015 will be the warmest year on record based on what has happened so far this year.

You can read the report at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201509.

The images below show that the Southeast was one of the few areas in the US that was near normal.  Alaska was below normal in temperature in September but has been above normal for the year to date as a whole.  The cold anomaly in the north Atlantic Ocean also shows up clearly in both monthly and YTD maps.

201509 global temps  201501-201509 global temp