NASA also issued its estimate of Earth’s surface temperature in February 2018 on March 15.
February 2018 was sixth warmest February on record
From
NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies
“February 2018 was the sixth warmest February in 138 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.”
The agency said in a statement on its Internet site.
“Last month was +0.78°C warmer than the average February of the 1951-1980 period. The only months of February warmer than that occurred in 2016 (+1.34°C), 2017 (+1.12°C), 1998 (+0.90°C), 2015 (+0.87°C), and 2010 (+0.79°C).”
