{"id":27234,"date":"2024-03-17T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T00:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27234"},"modified":"2024-03-17T20:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T00:23:16","slug":"noaa-the-earths-record-temperature-streak-continued-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/03\/noaa-the-earths-record-temperature-streak-continued-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA: The Earth\u2019s Record Temperature Streak Continued in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The February global surface temperature was 2.52\u00b0F, making it the warmest February on record (since 1880) and the ninth consecutive month of record-high global temperatures. The December 2023 through February 2024 period was also the warmest on record. Sea ice coverage was the 4th lowest. Global tropical cyclone activity was above average, but only two storms made landfall\u2014both of which were in Australia. You can read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/global-climate-202402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/news\/global-climate-202402<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news\/earth-just-had-its-warmest-february-on-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/news\/earth-just-had-its-warmest-february-on-record<\/a> and see more statistics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/monthly-report\/global\/202402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.ncei.noaa.gov\/access\/monitoring\/monthly-report\/global\/202402<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/feb-24-globel-temp-dep-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/feb-24-globel-temp-dep-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/feb-24-globel-temp-dep-1.png 600w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/feb-24-globel-temp-dep-1-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/djf-23-24-global-temp-dep.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/djf-23-24-global-temp-dep.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/djf-23-24-global-temp-dep.png 600w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2024\/03\/djf-23-24-global-temp-dep-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February global surface temperature was 2.52\u00b0F, making it the warmest February on record (since 1880) and the ninth consecutive month of record-high global temperatures. The December 2023 through February 2024 period was also the warmest on record. Sea ice coverage was the 4th lowest. Global tropical cyclone activity was above average, but only two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":27236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27238,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27234\/revisions\/27238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}