For all those who so vividly remember the polar vortex in 2014, guess what? It was actually the hottest year on record, surpassing 2010.
The National Climatic Data Center released a new report Friday which revealed that 2014 was the hottest year ever, or at least since the record keeping began back in 1880.
The report’s findings are sure to spark more debates about climate change and global warming.
The report said that the first nine months of the last year averaged a global temperature of around 58 degrees Fahrenheit. And, in September, averaged 60 degrees Fahrenheit, which marked the hottest for that month in 135 years.
In fact, as The New York Times noted, the last 10 warmest years on record have all been within the past twenty years. With the warm temperatures recorded, 1998 is surpassed about every four or five years now.
And no one can be certain if 2015 will eclipse 2014 as another record warm year, even with a polar vortex or two mixed in.