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2020 The Hottest Year in Recorded History (Tied with 2016)
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2020 reached this milestone without the aid of the 2016's El Niño warming event.
2020 was also filled with other new milestones including a record 29 tropical storms in the Atlantic, the lowest levels of sea ice yet recorded in the Arctic and record wildfires around the planet.
Like 2018, wildfire smoke creeps into the bottom third of this compilation, the grey/yellow cast occurring most noticeably on September 12.