(Bloomberg) -- As more than 100,000 Americans flee destructive wildfires in California and floods in Louisiana, Earth sends yet another reminder that the worst is yet to come: a new record for planet-wide heat.
Last month wasn’t just the hottest July on record for the surface of earth. It continued the longest-ever streak of record-breaking months — 15, according to data released on Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
July followed the hottest June, May, April, March, February, January, December, November, October, and September, along with last August, July, June, and May.
|Hottest month since instrumental records began
The extremes of recent months are such that we're only midway into 2016, and there’s already a greater than 99 percent likelihood that this year will go down as the hottest on record, according to Gavin Schmidt, who directs NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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