This just in: The global average temperature in September was the warmest in a record dating back to 1880, according to an update from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. That makes it two months in a row: August was also the hottest on record by NASA’s reckoning.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/imageo/2014/10/13/nasa-september-warmest-record/#.VD1XF2ddUz6