Worldwide Weather Woes

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Our planet kicked off another year with a warm start: January 2023 ranked as the seventh-warmest January in 174 years.

The average global land and ocean surface temperature was 1.57 degrees F (0.87 of a degree C) above average, ranking as the seventh-warmest January in NOAA's global climate record.

January 2023 marked the 47th-consecutive January and the 527th-consecutive month, with temperatures above the 20th-century average. 

Sea ice at both ends of the world also ran very low, according to NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

All across the USA, winter storms bring record low temps in northern parts while heat waves are breaking record highs in the South.

Across the country, nearly 65M people were issued weather alerts while more than 995k people dealt with power outages. Yeah, climate change woke up and chose chaos. Are you kidding, Southland, aka SOCAL Seriously???

Earth had its 7th-warmest January on record.