Beyond national phenomena or more or less localized icy episodes, the Earth has experienced January with less cold since there is data. The average temperature of the planet stood at 13.29 ºC which is 0.79ºC above the 1991-2020 average.
If you look at Europe, the average temperature of January, in the heart of the winter boreal, was 1.8 degrees, or, 2.5 ° C above the average, according to the Copernicus climate change service. This average European temperature covers from southern countries such as Spain to areas near the Arctic. With these data, last month the planet exceeded 1.75ºC the pre -industrial levels, that is, before the mass emission of greenhouse gases began by the burning of fossil fuels.
“It is the nineteenth month in a period of 19 months in which the global surface air temperature exceeds the 1.5ºC barrier with respect to the levels prior to the industrial revolution,” says the monthly Copernicus bulletin. That threshold is the security limit drawn by scientists and the objective of the Paris Agreement against climate change for 2100.
January 2025 has been another surprising month, continuing with the record temperatures observed over the last two years, despite the gestation of the girl’s phenomenon in the tropical Pacific and the temporary effect of cooling that has
Samantha Burgess thus summarizes the situation
– RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EUROPEAN CENTER OF LEGE MEEOROLOGICAL PROPOSALS CENTER
The head of the Climate of the European Center for Long -term weather forecasts, Samantha Burgess, thus summarizes the situation: “January 2025 has been another surprising month, continuing with the record temperatures observed over the last two years, despite of the gestation of the girl’s phenomenon in the tropical Pacific and the temporal effect of cooling it has on global temperatures. ”
With that heat trapped on the planet, the sea has not been alien to the temperature rise. Removing the polar seas, in January 2025, the ocean water reached 20.78 ° C, the second highest value of the records of that month and only “0.19ºC below the record marked in January 2024” Remember Copernicus.
Once last January and nothing else starts February, very high temperatures have been measured in the North Pole, which reached last Sunday or 0.5ºC. That is, the threshold was touched on which ice melts on the dates on which the Arctic is (or should be) forming, enlarging and thickening the ice layer of the cap. And just before that, sea ice in the Arctic marked its lowest monthly extension in a January, leaving 6% below the average, practically tied with January 2018.
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