2020 is on track to be one of the warmest years on record, NOAA says.
Already, the year-to-date period from January through May has been the second-warmest on record, Gleason said.
The planet also experienced a warmer-than-usual May. The average temperature across land and ocean surfaces last month was 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th century average. ThisIt was the 44th consecutive May and the 425th consecutive month with temperatures above the 20th century average, agency officials said.
In most of Asia, northern Africa, Alaska and the southwest contiguous United States, temperatures in May were at least 2.7 degrees F higher than average. But the warm conditions were not uniform across the globe: Much of Canada, the eastern U.S, eastern Europe and Australia experienced a cooler-than-usual month, with temperatures at least 1.8 degrees F below average.In the contiguous U.S., the Great Plains region stretching to the East Coast had below-average temperatures for May.
Despite the overall warming trend, May was a relatively quiet month for severe weather, according to NOAA. Though May is usually considered to be one of the most active months of the year for tornadoes, the agency recorded just 140 preliminary tornado reports, compared to 351 preliminary tornado reports in April.
“For a May, this is well below normal or what you would expect to see the number of storm reports,” said Patrick Marsh, chief of the science support branch at NOAA’s National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center.
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