World Meteorological Organization data shows January was the hottest month on record

In the battle to gradual world warming, January was the hottest month on record based on the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday.

Global precipitation reached a close to record-high in January on the heels of a record moist December.

Large parts of North America, Asia and Australia have been wetter than common whereas a lot of southern Africa and South America have been drier than regular.

The record-breaking pattern seen for a lot of 2023 has rolled into 2024. For the eighth month in a row, new warmth information have been set.

At the similar time, sea floor temperatures have been at a record excessive now for 10 consecutive months.

Need for motion ‘by no means clearer’

The UN local weather change physique, which hosts the annual COP convention, UNFCC, tweeted that primarily based on Thursday’s figures, “the urgency for local weather motion has by no means been clearer.”

“It is time to behave”, declared UNFCCC, and for international locations to place their local weather plans into movement which align with preserving world warming under the 1.5°C restrict outlined in the Paris Agreement practically a decade in the past.

This new data comes from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Japan Meteorological Agency.

They are 4 of the six worldwide datasets feeding into WMO’s State of the Climate experiences.

That report is due out subsequent month. But, thus far, the company has already confirmed that 2023 was by far the warmest 12 months on record as a result of human-induced local weather change and a warming El Niño climate sample.