<h2>GISS and NOAA both find that 2016 was hottest year recorded.</h2>

GISS and NOAA have jointly released their 2016 results. GISS's press release is here. NOAA's is here. I'll analyse the December results in a separate post, but for the moment, I'll just post the cumulative record plots:
GISS:


NOAA:



A fuller set of records for various indices is here, along with a discussion of UAH. The discussion of TempLS is here. Every index so far has reported a record year, and I expect the rest to do so. BEST also reported a record; BEST's report is here, and here is their cumulative record plot:





Update: Hot Whopper has more details.

Update. I see that HADCRUT 4 is out too, and they also had a record year, by a small margin. Here is their plot:



The complete set of these plots shown here is now fairly filled with complete data.