Story: Last month, the world's hottest January was on record, which continued a series of extreme global temperatures.
The global average temperature in January was 1.75 ° C higher than in pre-industrial times.
This is despite the fact that the world shifts from the El Nino warming pattern and turns to its cooler counterpart La Niña, which cools equatorial pacific waters and can curb the worldwide temperatures.
Samantha Burgess, strategic lead in the European Center for weather forecasts with medium -sized distance, said that the record temperatures outside the influence of El Nino were 'a little surprising'.
“The temperatures are still at record high for most ocean basins. Also, if we look at air temperatures all over the world, we have seen really large deviations, especially around the Arctic area where those deviations have been 20 degrees above the average. So that So that is a huge deviation. “
El Nino peaked more than a year ago.
The European Agency, which manages the Copernicus Climate Change Service of the EU, assesses that La Nina has not yet been fully developed and that the world is currently in neutral conditions between the two phases.
Even if La Nina comes up completely, the cooling effect may not be enough to temporarily curb the global temperatures.
This is influenced by factors such as extreme heat that is seen in other ocean basins and the main cause of climate change: emissions of heat -colating greenhouse gases.
Worldwide, the average temperatures of the sea surface temperatures were the second highest registered for the month in January.
Scientists from Berkeley Earth and the UK met the office that they expect that 2025 the third hottest year ever has been registered.
