The Modern Warming: Climate Tracker

The Earth's temperature has risen by 1.22 °C since the pre-industrial era (1850–1900), as revealed by cutting-edge HadCRUT5 weather station data and the UAH satellite series. Since 1979, when satellite technology unveiled a new era of climate observation, we've seen a steady warming trend of 1.56 °C per century. Projecting this trajectory to 2100, our planet could face a daunting 2.4 °C increase from pre-industrial levels.

The latest monthly anomaly is 1.26 °C, as of the Feb 2026 update in the UAH series.

The El Niño years 1998, 2016 and 2023 present themselves as high spikes, but the last one literally went off the chart and we had to adjust the scales. This long duration of the spike is also attributed to the Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption that shot water all the way to the stratosphere where it has a warming effect on the terrain below. In 2025, we returned to the average trend marked in red.