There’s not much blue to see on this map. Scientists say last month was Earth’s warmest January on record.
According to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, there has never been a warmer January around the world than last month – well, at least in the last 141 years of recordkeeping.
The January global land and ocean surface temperature was the highest on record at 2.05°F above the 20th-century average. This surpassed the record set in January 2016 by 0.04°.
Above-normal heat making headlines has been a trend for some time. 2019 turned out to be the second-hottest year on record across the globe, with the period between 2010-2019 the hottest decade ever recorded.
NOAA confirms the four warmest Januaries documented have occurred since 2016.
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