Daniel1960, on 2018-August-15, 12:11, said:
According to NOAA, 15 new maximum temperatures were set so far this summer. Consider that there are over 100,000 reporting stations, this amount to less than 0.1%. That would be an average summer, if we had 1000 years of temperature data for all the reporting stations. By comparison, 1936 saw the most all-time maximum temperature records set with 793, over fewer stations.
https://www.ncdc.noa...tatools/records
As is noted in your link,
This tool provides simplistic counts of records to provide insight into recent climate behavior, but is not a definitive way to identify trends in the number of records set over time. This is particularly true outside the United States, where the number of records may be strongly influenced by station density from country to country and from year to year. These data are raw and have not been assessed for the effects of changing station instrumentation and time of observation.
And I don't know where your numbers are coming from. When I looked at your link, I see 38 record highs for the year so far just in the USA.
In Seattle (as an example), there is:
Mother's Day Heat Record
July 15 Heat Record
Warmest May in history
Hottest July on Record
That's 2 temperature records for just 1 US city so far in 2018, in addition to 2 of the warmest months in history.