Forget the Local Cold: Worldwide, It Was Another Hot January
January will go down in the weather history books as the fourth-warmest on record.
That’s right.
No matter how brutal the winter was in North America, especially the Eastern half, it was balanced by warm temperatures elsewhere on the planet.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Climate Data Center says that last month marks the 38th consecutive January and the 347th consecutive month (almost 29 years) that global temperatures have been above the average for the 20th century.
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