The globe saw its 12th-consecutive month of record warmth
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Looking at the world’s land masses, temperatures were above average across most of the globe except for western North America, Greenland, southern South America, western Russia and parts of eastern Antarctica. Africa had its warmest May on record. The year-to-date global surface temperature ranked as the warmest such period on record, 2.38 degrees F above average. Africa, Europe and South America each had their warmest such YTD period, with North America ranking second warmest.
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