From the AP, some climatic changes:
- Warmest January on record—global mean temperature 0.85 C above the 30-year mean
- 8000 high-temperature records set or matched in August at US weather stations
- Warmest April in England in 348 years, 0.6 C above 1865 record
- Canadian Northwest Passage open for five weeks starting August 11, first time ever navigable
- Arctic sea ice retreated to record minimum, 23% below 2005 record minimum
- Greenland ice cap
- Across North America, severe to extreme drought was present across large parts of the western U.S. and Upper Midwest, including southern Ontario
- Extreme drought in Australia
- Record Alaskan permafrost warming
- Record rains fell in China, England and Wales
Other weather events:
- A tornado struck New York City in August
- A June cyclone struck Oman and Iran
- South Africa got its first significant snowfall in 25 years