Climate Central: And the heat goes on, and the heat goes on.
August continued the parade of months in 2015 at or near the top of the temperature rankings, according to NASA records, further upping the odds that the year as a whole will be the warmest on record, beating out 2014.
The year's potentially chart-topping heat has been driven in part by an El Nio that could rival the strongest on record, but it is also something that is more likely to happen now thanks to the steady accumulation of heat in the atmosphere...