As per NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information analysis, August 2021 was the 6th hottest month on the Earth, despite the fact that, Central Texas went through a cooler than average month.

Highlights

• August 2021 was the 6th warmest month in 142 years.
• While analysing the August’s heat, scientists found that the average global land & ocean surface temperature was 1.62 degrees F more than the average of 20th-century.
• North America witnessed its top-10 warmest August.
• Asia had its 2nd warmest August while Africa had 3rd warmest August.
• Since 2009, 9 out of 10 warmest Augusts on Earth have happened.

Year 2021 was also the 2nd hottest summer on record in Northern Hemisphere.  Year 2020 witnessed the hottest summer on record in the Northern Hemisphere. August end also wrapped up meteorological summer, a summer which was tied with 2019 as second hottest summer on record in the Northern Hemisphere.