Will I ever stop writing headlines about the hottest months on record?

And now, some regularly scheduled climate news: This year will almost certainly be the hottest year on record.
If this sounds familiar, it’s probably because the last hottest year on record was long-ago 2015, and we’re now continuing a trend. To be fair, the proclamation isn’t definitive yet because we don’t have all the data, but it is "very likely."
The World Meteorological Organization reports that temperatures from January until September this year were 1.58 degrees F