Meanwhile, NCEI reported The January–June 2022 global surface temperature was 0.85°C (1.53°F) above the 20th century average, which is the sixth-highest for the January–June period since records began in 1880.
This was 0.26°C (0.47°F) less than the record set in 2016. According to NCEI's global annual temperature ranking outlook, there is greater than 99% chance that the year will rank among the ten warmest years on record.
the agency reported "The first half of the year was characterized by much-warmer-than-average conditions across much of the globe, with record-high temperatures across parts of the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as parts of Asia and small areas in Africa and South America.
"Meanwhile, cooler-than-average temperatures during January–June were present across the central, eastern tropical and southeastern Pacific Ocean, North America, North Atlantic (southern Greenland) and southern Africa. However, no land or ocean areas had a record-cold January–June.
Asia, as a whole, had a temperature departure of +2.23°C (+4.01°F) — the second-highest for January–June since continental records began in 1910. This value was 0.54°C (0.97°F) less than the record set in 2020, it said.
