August 2017 was the second warmest August on record: NASA
August 2017 was the second warmest August in 137 years of record keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by NASA. While August 2016 was the hottest, this year's August was 0.85 ÂºC warmer than the mean August temperature from 1951-1980. The analysis was assembled from publicly available data acquired by about 6,300 meteorological stations around the world.