Highlights
New record highs for sea surface temperatures, globally, outpaced new record lows in August 2010, as shown in this graph from the UK Met Office.
Map of monthly average Sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies (relative to 1961-1990) from HadSST2. White areas represent gridboxes containing no SST data. The black crosses and dashes indicate that a pixel is, respectively, the warmest or coldest example of that calendar month in the record.
The source article Met Office Hadley Centre observations datasets .
