January 2024 was the warmest January on record globally, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 13,14°C – that’s 0,7°C above the 1991-2020 average for January and 0,12°C above the temperature of the previous warmest January, in 2020.
The global temperature anomaly for January 2024 was lower than those of the last six months of 2023, but higher than any before July 2023. The month was 1,66°C warmer than an estimate of the January average for 1850-1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period. European temperatures varied in January 2024 from much below the 1991-2020 average over the Nordic countries to much above average over the south of the continent.
El Niño began to weaken in the equatorial Pacific, but marine air temperatures in general remained at an unusually high level. The average global sea surface temperature for January over 60°S–60°N reached 20,97°C – a record for January and 0,26°C warmer than the previous warmest January and second highest value for any month in the ERA5 dataset, within 0,01°C of the record from August 2023 .
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