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To find a month when the global average temperature over the land and oceans was below average, you have to go all the way back to December 1984, according to the latest monthly analysis from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Including April 2017, that makes it 388 straight months in which the global temperature has been warmer than the 20th century average.
Like NASA’s independent analysis released earlier this week, NOAA finds that last month was the second warmest