Arctic sea ice coverage near record low
January 16, 2025: The sun rises over mist that formed over the countryside in Somerset, England. January 2025 was the world's warmest January in NOAA’s 176-year global climate record.Earth started 2025 with its warmest January on record, according to data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information .January 2025
The average global land and ocean surface temperature was 2.39 degrees F above the 20th-century average, ranking as the warmest January in the 176-year global climate record. This was 0.05 of a degree F above the previous record-warm January of 2024. The new January global record is particularly notable for having occurred during a La Nina episode, the cold phase ofAn annotated map of the world plotted with the most significant climate events of January 2025. See the story below as well as the report summary from NOAA NCEI at Arctic sea ice extent was below average , ranking second lowest on record. Antarctic extent was slightly below average . Globally, sea ice extent was the seventh smallest in the 47-year record at 6.
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