NOAA: Year-to-Date Global Temperature Ties for Warmest on Record

The first nine months of 2010 tied with the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record. The global average land surface temperature for January-September was the second warmest on record, behind 2007. The global ocean surface temperature for January–September was also the second warmest on record, behind 1998.

The article can be found here from the NOAA site.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20101015_globalstats.html