Not exact matches
The three - month average gives the 6th
warmest start to the year (
9th in UAH) behind 2016, 2010, 1998, 2017 & 2007, all excepting last year an El Nino years which TLT gives bigger wobbles to than the surface records.
UAH puts the
start of 2018 as
9th warmest after 2016, 1998, 2010, 2017, 2007, 2002, 2005, 2004.
The three - month average Jan - Mar gives the = 4th
warmest start to the year (
9th in UAH, RSS 6th) behind 2016, 2017 & 2015, and equalling 2010.
The three - month average Jan - Mar 2018 gives the 6th
warmest start to the year (GISTEMP = 4th,
9th in UAH, RSS 6th), in NOAA behind 2016, 2017 & 2015, and 2001/2010.