Globe Ties the Record for Warmest September According to data
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
the globe recorded its warmest September on record, tying with
2005 for the title. Global surface temperature records stretch
all the way back to 1880. September marked the 331st straight
month with above-average temperatures, and the 36th straight
September with a global temperature above the 20th-century
average. The last below-average September temperature was in
1976, when Gerald Ford was President and Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak formed Apple Computer Company, and the last below-
average month for any month of the year occurred in February
1985, during the Reagan Administration. The first nine months of
2012 were the eighth warmest such period on record, and barring
unusual cold during the October through December period, the
year is likely to fall within the top 10 warmest years on record
globally. In the U.S., the year is on track to be the warmest
year on record, after the coun