Follow-Up: Just How Hot Was July 2016?

The other day I posted an article about how ridiculously warm July 2016 was globally. Like every month for 10 months in a row, it was the hottest such month since records have been reliably kept (starting in 1880). This happens so often now that I just repost the same article, with the dates and numbers updated. That's one way you know the planet's getting hotter: When every record hot month or year is the month or year you're in, it's getting hotter. But there's more to this. July is generally ...