Warmest January since records began

Feuerwehrleute in Chile — A heatwave in Chile favors the spread of forest fires. The South American country was not the only place where January was particularly warm.

January 2024 was the hottest since records began. Both the ocean surface temperature and the air temperature reached record levels.

The ocean surface and air temperatures reached record levels in January. At 20.97 degrees Celsius, the oceans were, on average, 0.26 degrees warmer than in January 2016, when the highest temperatures were previously measured at this time of year. This is the result of a recent data analysis by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

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