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WMO: 2024 set a global temperature record
Surface temperature was 1.55 ± 0.13°C above 1850–1900. WMO cautioned against conflating a single year with the long-term threshold.
Event / data period: 2024
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IllustrationA synthesis of six datasets called 2024 the warmest in 175 years.
This is a 2024 observation, not current-year data.
Data
Source-reported indicators
Numerical indicators for the scope and reference period defined by the source.
- Global surface temperature anomaly
- 1.55 °C above 1850–1900 average
- 2024 · Observed
- Reported uncertainty magnitude
- 0.13 °C
- 2024 · Observed
- 2023 anomaly
- 1.45 °C above 1850–1900 average
- 2023 · Observed
Methodology
Reports WMO’s annual global mean near-surface temperature anomaly against the 1850–1900 reference, including its stated ± uncertainty.
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