The only way for 2024 to not be the warmest, the agency said, is if the average temperature anomaly dropped to almost zero for the remainder of the year — which is highly unlikely.
This plot shows yearly temperature anomalies from 1880 to 2019, with respect to the 1951-1980 mean, as recorded by NASA, NOAA, the Berkeley Earth research group, the Met Office Hadley Centre (UK ...