Nighttime temperatures across much of California were record warm in July 2018, part of an accelerating warming trend in the state since the start of the twenty-first century.
Global mean sea level in 2017 was the highest in the satellite record—3 inches (77 millimeters) higher than it was in 1993—and the rate of increase has been accelerating.
See highlights from the 2017 issue of the planet's most comprehensive annual physical, the American Meteorological Society's State of the Climate report.
