Global warming at a new record, January 2024 the warmest month on record

2024-02-08 11:59:53Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Global warming at a new record, January 2024 the warmest month on record

The average global temperature in January 2024 was 1.6°C above pre-industrial levels for the month, meaning the planet has exceeded the benchmark of 1.5°C over the past 12 months. January 2024 was the warmest January on record globally, according to data from Copernicus' C3S Climate Change Service.

Reporting on behalf of the European Commission, C3S published its monthly climate update on observed changes in global air and sea temperatures, sea ice cover and hydrological variables. All reported findings are based on computer-generated analyzes of data on atmospheric, terrestrial, and oceanic climate variables.

C3S reported an average surface air temperature of 13.14 C in January 2024, which is 0.70 C above the 1991 – 2020 average for January and 0.12 C above the previous warmest January temperature in 2020 – n.

This makes it the eighth month in a row to be the warmest on record for the corresponding month of the year. 2024 began with a January that was 1.66 C warmer than an estimate of the average January for 1850–1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period.

C3S based these findings on a system called ERA5 – hourly data generated using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world. The organization also reports that the average global temperature for the last twelve months – February 2023 to January 2024 is the highest, at 0.64 C above the 1991 – 2020 average and 1.52 C above the pre-industrial 1850 – 1900 average.

European temperatures in January 2024 ranged from well below the 1991-2020 average over the Nordic countries to well above average in the south of the continent. Outside Europe, temperatures were well above average over eastern Canada, northwest Africa, the Middle East and central Asia, and below average over western Canada, the central US and much of eastern Siberia.


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