January 2025 was the hottest on record—a whole 1.7°C above pre-industrial levels. If many climate-watchers expected the world ...
For Americans, news of a record warm January might seem odd given how cold it was. But the U.S. is just a tiny fraction of ...
La Niña and record cold temperatures in the U.S. should have made Earth cooler, but January 2025 was still the hottest on ...
In fact, January 2025’s record heat highlights how human-driven ocean warming is increasingly ... Typically, La Niña will lower the global temperature by a couple of tenths of a degree Celsius.
A streak of extreme global temperatures continues despite a shift towards the cooling La Nina weather pattern.
El Nino’s cooler flip side, a La Nina, tends to dampen the effects of global warming, making record temperatures far less likely. A La Nina started in January after brewing for months.