Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday.

NASA has confirmed that 2024 was the hottest year on record, with Earth's average surface temperature reaching unprecedented levels. According to a NASA analysis, global temperatures were 2.30 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century baseline,

The year 2024 was the hottest on record and the first to top 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. All 10 of the hottest years have been in the past decade

The findings, due to be released at 5 p.m. Geneva time (1600 GMT) will collate findings of meteorological observatories in Britain, China, the EU and the U.S., WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis said. "The WMO will later today confirm that 2024 was the hottest year on record,

Scientists on Friday confirmed that 2024 was the first to surpass a dangerous warming threshold of 1.5 Celsius that nations had pledged not to cross.

Global temperatures in 2024 exceeded 1.5 Celsius above the pre-industrial era for the first time, bringing the world closer to breaching the pledge governments made under the 2015 Paris climate agreement,