El Niño breaks ANOTHER record: Weather phenomenon pushes temperatures last month to highest ever levels for January

Tuesday, February 16, 2016
By Paul Martin

Temperatures in January were 1.13°C above the 1951-1980 averag
Previous hottest January was in 2007 when it was 0.95°C above average
News comes just a month after Nasa declared 2015 hottest year on record
El Niño’s counterpart La Nina is expected to emerge in the coming months

By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD
DAILYMAIL.COM
16 February 2016

El Niño is continuing to break records after pushing the global average temperature last month to its highest ever level for January.

The overall temperature at our planet’s surface was 1.13°C above the 1951-1980 average last month.

The previous hottest month of January, according to Nasa records that go back to 1880, was set in 2007 when it was 0.95°C above average.

The news comes just a month after Nasa declared 2015 the hottest year on record.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency has backed up Nasa’s latest claim, after reporting that January’s global land and sea-surface temperatures were 0.52 degrees above the average.

Temperatures in January are rising at the rate of about 0.75 degrees per century, the agency added.

El Niño is believed to have hit a peak in January, which contributed to the record-breaking temperatures.

But as Thomas R. Karl, director of NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, said last year: ‘The trend over time is why we’re having a record warm year.’

Discover Magazine points out that global land temperatures have been increasingly steadily since 1880.

Meanwhile, warm temperatures in the Arctic during January have been linked to a different phenomenon known as the Arctic Oscillation.

This involves differences in air pressure over the Arctic and lower latitudes.

‘If past events help predict future ones, then we have probably reached the peak of the 2015–2016 El Niño,’ Nasa said last month.

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