Global mean temperatures set new record highs for both the month of August as well as the summer months of June through August, according to three separate analyses.

A state of the climate report issued by NOAA Tuesday said that August 2016 was Earth's warmest August in records dating to 1880.

The average temperature for the globe was 0.92 degrees Celsius above the 20th-century average. This beat the previous warmest August on record set just a year ago which was 0.87 degrees Celsius above average. This marked the third year in a row the planet set an August warm record, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

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NOAA said that August 2016 also marked the 16th straight warmest respective month on record for the globe. That is the longest stretch of months in a row that a global temperature record has been set in their dataset.

July, typically the warmest month of the year globally because the Northern Hemisphere has more land masses than the Southern Hemisphere, was the single warmest month on record for the planet .

For the third year in a row, Earth also set its record hottest summer (June-August) in 2016 , according to NOAA.

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Given that the first eight months of 2016 have all been record warm, the planet has also had its warmest January-August on record, with temperatures over 1 degree Celsius above the 1901-2000 average for the first time in NOAA's records.

Parts of Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Indian Ocean, central Asia, central and southern Africa, northern South America, Central America, Alaska and western Canada were record warm in January-August 2016.

It appears inevitable 2016 will end up being the earth's warmest year on record, topping both 2015 and 2014.

NOAA says even if each of the last four months of 2016 were just average, it would be just 0.01 degree Celsius behind 2015's record warm year.

Three Other Analyses: August One of the Hottest

NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies also found August 2016 was the globe's warmest August in their dataset dating to 1880.

The temperature anomaly of 0.98 degrees Celsius above average topped the previous warmest August in 2014 by 0.16 degrees, according to NASA's analysis released earlier. This marked the 11th straight month setting a warm record for that month in NASA's analysis.

The Japanese Meteorological Agency found August 2016 was just 0.03 degrees Celsius behind 2015 as the globe's warmest August dating to 1891.

All three of the top four warmest Augusts on record have occurred in the past three years, according to the JMA analysis .

Since May 2015, 14 of 16 months have either tied or set new records for that month in the JMA dataset. Only May and August 2016 (each second warmest for that month) failed to do so.

Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) , operated by the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), calculated the global average August temperature was nearly two-tenths of a degree Celsius higher than the previous August temperature records set in 2015, in their dataset dating to 1979.

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Portions of western Russia, the Canadian Arctic, as well as parts of the Southern Ocean were warmest compared to average in August, according to C3S analysis.

Among August's cooler spots were parts of the Southern Ocean, Australia, north-central Russia, and the U.S. Rockies.

Ultimately, it's not the small fractions of a degree that may put one month ahead of another, but rather the long-term rise in global temperatures.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7.

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