After 2023 blew the roof off the record for warmest year, January has now gone into the record books too.
This map shows how much warmer or cooler surface temperatures were in January 2024 relative to a long-term base period . Far more of Earth's surface was unusually warm than unusually cold, and the month entered the record books as the warmest January in observations going back to the 1800s. .Thanks to unrelenting human-caused global warming, and with a little push from El Niño, last month continued 2023's heat streak, coming in as the warmest January on record.on Feb. 14.
What's more, the global average for the month was almost as high as the record-setting sea surface temperatures of August of 2023. And now, February is eclipsing August's highs, taking us further into uncharted territory. Unfortunately, what goes into the oceans doesn't all stay there. "The exceptional warmth observed in the oceans is a key contributor to the record global surface air temperature for January," according to a recentOverall, recent global warming has been significant enough for the world to at least temporarily pass a significant milestone. For the 12 months ending in January, the average global temperature was 1.
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