Last year was the world’s wettest since 1880

New York Times : Having analyzed climate data from 2010, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced yesterday that the year was the wettest since 1880, when reliable record-keeping on a global scale began. Last year also tied 2005 as the hottest. In both years, the mean global temperature was 14.51 °C, 0.62 °C higher than the 20th-century mean. Although the US was also wetter and hotter than average for the 20th century, the country as a whole did not break or equal records. Still, last year’s summer in the US was the fourth hottest on record.