age in most European countries. The Balkans, Eastern Europe, Finland, northwestern Russia and the Svalbard region in particular reported values well above average. The Iberian Peninsula, Greenland, Iceland and a region north of the Caspian Sea recorded below-average monthly values. On average across Europe, January was 2.2 °C above the 1991-2020 average. It was Europe’s third warmest January in the Copernicus dataset since 1979.
The massive New Year’s warmth
Mild air masses from the southwest brought unusually high temperatures to large parts of Europe at the turn of the year. Foehn effects contributed to the warmth in some areas. The warmth reached its peak on New Year’s Day. Averaged across Europe, the temperature was 0.6 °C higher than all previous January values in the complete ERA5 data set from 1940 onwards.
In western Ukraine, temperatures rose about 16°C above peru phone number library average, and in Poland, temperatures rose about 15°C. A station in Warsaw, Poland, recorded a temperature of 18.9°C, more than 5°C higher than any previous January temperature. Like Poland, many European countries reported national and local temperature records. In contrast, temperatures in southern Norway and central Sweden were up to 13°C below average.
Before January 1, 2023, the warmest January day in Europe was January 10, 2007. However, global warming has brought a temperature increase of 0.8 °C over the past 16 years. Taking this increase in the normal temperature into account, the warm event of January 2023 was no more extreme or even slightly less extreme than the warm event of January 2007.
The global overview
January temperatures were well above the 1991-2020 “immersion in france: the original formula for learning english” average in the eastern United States, Canada, Mexico, and a southeast-northwest band in western Russia. Southern South America, large parts of Africa, and parts of Central Asia also experienced warmer-than-average conditions.
In contrast, there was a large region in Siberia with significantly germany cell number below-average January temperatures. In this area, the town of Dzhalinda recorded -62.1 °C on January 10. Afghanistan, Pakistan and neighboring countries, as well as Australia, also recorded below-average temperatures for January, as did northern South America, part of southern Africa, most of Antarctica, and areas of the western United States.
On average worldwide, January was 0.25 °C above the 1991–2020 average. It was the seventh warmest January in the Copernicus dataset since 1979, together with Januarys 2018 and 2021.