You wouldn't know it in San Francisco, where summer temperatures have been characteristically moderate, but last month was the hottest August on record worldwide, according to federal climate data released Thursday.
Last month's heat adds to a historic year, with two of the prior three months also posting their warmest average temperatures since record-keeping began in 1880. July marked the exception - it went down as the fourth-hottest on record.
At the current pace, 2014 could very well end up the globe's hottest year.
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