Members of the public enjoy the warm weather down at Bondi Beach on October 31, 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Australia is expecting much hotter temperatures than usual for the next three months.

(Daniel Munoz/Getty Images)

The global average temperature for the world's land and ocean surfaces in October 2014 was the highest for any October since modern temperature record-keeping began in 1880, according to the latest global climate report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Last month also was the 38th consecutive October with global temperatures above the 20th century average, as the last time the world experienced below-average temperatures during the month came in 1976.

"This also marks the third consecutive month and fifth of the past six with a record high global temperature for its respective month (July was fourth highest)," NOAA's October climate report states.

Every month except February in 2014 has been at least the fourth warmest of its respective month, globally. January, March and July were the fourth warmest of their respective months.

Hotter-than-normal temperatures were spread across the world over both land and ocean surfaces, NOAA says in the report, adding that both the Northern and Southern hemispheres experienced record warmth.

Here's the numbers for October 2014:

Combined land-ocean surface temperature: 1.33°F above the 20th century average (hottest on record)Global land surface temperature: 1.89°F above the 20th century average (fifth hottest on record)Global ocean surface temperature: 1.12°F above the 20th century average (hottest on record)January to October 2014 period: 1.22°F above the 20th century average, making them the warmest first 10 months of the year on record

In the United States, we experienced our fourth-warmest October on record with an average temperature 3.0°F above the 20th century average, while around the world several countries in Europe also had an October that was among their 10 hottest on record, including Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Switzerland and the U.K.

Continuing a streak of unusually warm weather over the past year, Australia had its second-hottest October on record, and its daytime temperatures were its hottest ever for the month, averaging 4.97°F above the 1961-1990 average.

Interestingly, this record warm October globally occurred despite a cold month in a large swath of Russia and other parts of central Asia, as you can see in the map below.

For the first 10 months of 2014, despite the record warm such period when compiling global statistics, parts of central Canada, the U.S. Midwest, central Russia and Kazakhstan have trended cooler than average.

Read more at NOAA's Global Climate Report for October 2014 here.

October 2014 blended land and sea surface temperature anomalies, in degrees Celsius.

(NOAA)