NOAA published their latest climate summary this morning. In it they show that this August was the warmest since record began in 1895 for the globe as a whole. The eastern US was one of the few areas across the Earth that was not unusually warm. Temperature patterns for the January through August period were similar to the pattern for August. Both land and ocean temperatures set records as well as the combined temperature.
You can read a more complete summary of the climate at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201508.
