Global Average Temperature 2026

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This has been an interesting first three months of 2026. 

So far ( date provided by Copernicus) :

January 2026 was the fifth-warmest January globally. 

February 2025 was the fifth-warmest January globally. 

Notables so far were the variations in temperature across N/A and parts of Europe.  These regions hosted the lion's share of what negative anomaly contribution there was that went into the total state of the planetary system. 

The graphic below illustrates these idiosyncrasies.

( I corroborated the above with NASA's releases and they conform )

March is not yet available at either Copernicus or NASA's monthly releases. NASA typically releases their finding s around the 10th of each month so we expect those soon. 

We know already that March 2026 was the warmest March on record across N/A mid latitude ( conterminous US), per more sources than need to really list here.  Go take a look.   However, again, both in data, as well as "sensibly" experienced, this was not as readily observed for the eastern mid latitude continent.  Nevertheless, these eastern geographies accumulated +2 to +3 positive anomaly for the month - so ours was likely still negative relative to the whole continent, which can be ratified soon enough.  This may or may not be reflected in the total graphics including the Mid Atlantic and eastern Ohio Valley and some parts of the SE.  

Personally, given a-priori awareness of the global circulation modes for the past 7 months and the persistence thereof, .. I suspect we'll see a repeat of relative offsets over eastern N/A and N-W Europe, while the rest of the world observes a ranking somewhere in the 3rd to 6th place for March.   

The beat goes on...