Developing El Niño conditions, now present and forecast to intensify through late 2026, represent the main driver pushing trader consensus toward a second-place ranking for 2026 at 66% implied probability. Early-year data through May show global temperatures running fourth-highest on record for the period, cooler than 2024 and 2025 peaks yet elevated by background warming trends. Official outlooks from NOAA and WMO assign high odds that 2026 finishes among the top four years, with an emerging strong El Niño raising chances it challenges or exceeds the 2024 record. This leaves first place at 25% while lower rankings remain marginal.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · UpdatedWhere will 2026 rank among the hottest years on record?
2 66%
1 25%
4 4.2%
6 or lower 3.8%
$2,951,935 Vol.
$2,951,935 Vol.
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25%
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66%
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2 66%
1 25%
4 4.2%
6 or lower 3.8%
$2,951,935 Vol.
$2,951,935 Vol.
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25%
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66%
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3%
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4%
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6 or lower
4%
Years will be ranked in descending order, starting with the hottest as number 1, the second hottest as number 2, etc.
If 2026 ties with any other year, it will resolve according to the place the year it ties with occupies.
This market will resolve immediately once the specified data becomes available, regardless of whether the figure for the relevant years is later revised.
The primary resolution source for this market will be the figure found in the table titled "Land-Ocean Temperature Index (C)" under the column "No_Smoothing" in the row "2026" (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Global_Mean_Estimates_based_on_Land_and_Ocean_Data/graph.txt). If NASA's "Global Temperature Index" is rendered permanently unavailable, other information from NASA may be used. If no information for 2026 is provided by NASA by March 1, 2027, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve based on a consensus of credible reporting.
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0x2F5e3684c...Years will be ranked in descending order, starting with the hottest as number 1, the second hottest as number 2, etc.
If 2026 ties with any other year, it will resolve according to the place the year it ties with occupies.
This market will resolve immediately once the specified data becomes available, regardless of whether the figure for the relevant years is later revised.
The primary resolution source for this market will be the figure found in the table titled "Land-Ocean Temperature Index (C)" under the column "No_Smoothing" in the row "2026" (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/graph_data/Global_Mean_Estimates_based_on_Land_and_Ocean_Data/graph.txt). If NASA's "Global Temperature Index" is rendered permanently unavailable, other information from NASA may be used. If no information for 2026 is provided by NASA by March 1, 2027, 11:59 PM ET, this market will resolve based on a consensus of credible reporting.
Resolver
0x2F5e3684c...Developing El Niño conditions, now present and forecast to intensify through late 2026, represent the main driver pushing trader consensus toward a second-place ranking for 2026 at 66% implied probability. Early-year data through May show global temperatures running fourth-highest on record for the period, cooler than 2024 and 2025 peaks yet elevated by background warming trends. Official outlooks from NOAA and WMO assign high odds that 2026 finishes among the top four years, with an emerging strong El Niño raising chances it challenges or exceeds the 2024 record. This leaves first place at 25% while lower rankings remain marginal.
Experimental AI-generated summary referencing Polymarket data. This is not trading advice and plays no role in how this market resolves. · Updated

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