NOAA: January 2021 was ninth-warmest on record in the U.S., seventh-warmest globally » Yale Climate Connections
About 46% of the contiguous U.S. was in drought at the end of January, the most for the month since 2013. Spain lies blanketed in heavy snow on January 12, 2021, in the wake of Windstorm Filomena, Earth’s most expensive weather-related disaster of January, with $2.2 billion in damage to Madrid alone. (Image credit: Modified Sentinel-3 satellite data from Pierre Markuse) January 2021 was the seventh warmest January since global record keeping began in 1880, 0.80 degrees Celsius (1.44°F) above the 20th century average, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, NCEI, reported F...
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