January 2023 was the seventh warmest January on Earth in 174 years (NOAA)
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has revealed that January 2023 was the seventh warmest January in 174 years. According to the NOAA report, the global average sea and land surface temperature has been measured at 1.57 degrees Fahrenheit (0.87 degrees Celsius).
January 2023 temperature was classified as the seventh warmest January on NOAA's global climate record.
The report also highlighted that across the globe, Europe had its warmest January on record, while North America and Africa recorded their fifth and sixth warmest months, respectively.
The survey also found that temperatures are above average in Northwest, Central and Southeast Asia, eastern North America and southern parts of South America.
sea and ice in all corners of the world were also very low, according to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). The report mentions that “January 2023 was the 47th consecutive January and the 527th consecutive month of temperatures above the 20th century average”.
Other recorded weather events
Global sea ice coverage hit a record low in January 2023.January of this year surpassed the previous record low set in 2017 by 150,000 square miles.
January Antarctic sea ice extent reached a record low of 1.25 million square miles, about 700,000 square miles below the 1991-2020 average.
On the other hand, January 2023 saw above-average rainfall in parts of northeastern and eastern central North America, and the central and southern coasts of the western United States., Central Europe, Central Asia and Eastern Oceania.
Several environmentalists have expressed concern about the sudden change in weather patterns around the world. It is possible that the effects of climate change will become visible through changes in weather patterns and sea levels.
Similar finds in the past
Earlier, researchers in Nepal also warned that the highest glacier on Mount Everest could disappear by the middle of the 21st century. The 2,000-year-old ice cap on Earth's tallest mountain has been thinning at an alarming rate.
Another report published in Nature Geoscience found that a glacier in Antarctica is melting faster than expected. A team of scientists mentioned that a higher rate of melt has occurred over the past six months, causing Thwaites Glacier to retreat at 1.3 miles per
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