The Blue Marble, by Apollo 17 (1972).

2025 was our planet Earth’s third-warmest year on record. That’s
just one notable fact taken from NOAA’s 2025 Global Climate
Analysis released earlier this week.

The report shows how each region of the world compares to the
past (in terms of temperature and precipitation), as well as how
and where severe weather had impacts during the 2025 year.
(Keep in mind that climate record-keeping began in 1850).

The world’s warmest year was 2024, and 2023 comes in second.

For the United States, we find that 2025 was our fourth-warmest
year. October specifically set a record as the warmest October
in the United States on record, while September and November
each ranked second-warmest.