January 2025 will be the warmest January ever recorded worldwide

Arab Weather - The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) program published its latest monthly climate bulletin, highlighting the main climate trends for January 2025.

According to the bulletin, January 2025 was the warmest January on record globally, with an average surface air temperature of 13.23°C, 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 average for the same month. The temperature in January 2025 was also 1.75°C above the pre-industrial level.

According to the latest data, the average temperature over land during January 2025 was about 1.80 degrees Celsius, which is 2.51 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average for the same month.

The warming in January 2025 had a clear impact across Europe. Western Russia had a particularly warm anomaly, with daily temperatures breaking records, while southern and eastern Europe and Turkey also saw above-average temperatures. Valencia, Spain, recorded its hottest January temperature of 26.9°C, the highest in the 150-year climate record. In contrast, Iceland, the UK, Ireland and northern France all had below-average temperatures.

Outside Europe, temperatures were above average in northeastern Canada, including Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and Hudson Bay, where sea ice concentration was unusually low, and well above average in northwestern Canada, Alaska and Siberia.

Most of Africa, southern South America and Australia saw above-average temperatures, with Australia recording its second-hottest January since 1910. Antarctica also saw significantly above-average temperatures.

In the United States, temperatures were significantly below average due to a cold snap that brought record low temperatures and historic snowfall to the southern states. Temperatures were also below average in areas as far east as Russia, across the Arabian Peninsula and Southeast Asia, with Thailand experiencing cooler-than-average conditions.