Record temperatures in January 2025: Europe is fighting with floods!

Record temperatures in January 2025: Europe is fighting with floods!

Pont-Rean, Frankreich - January 2025 will go into the history books as the warmest ever measured! With a global average temperature of 13.23 degrees, the month exceeded the pre-industrial level by astonishing 1.75 degrees, as reported by the Copernicus climate converter in Reading. Even the development of La-Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, which usually has cooling effects on the temperatures, could not stop this record heat, said Samantha Burgess from the European Center for Medium-term weather forecast (EZMW) that January 2025 continues the trend of record temperatures of the past two years, despite the past climate phenomenon EL again Niño.

precipitation and floods in Western Europe

At the same time, January was characterized by an above -average rainfall in many parts of Western Europe, including regions in Italy, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. These difficulties led to floods in different areas. According to the measurements, the average of the sea surface temperature reached 20.78 degrees in January, which represents the second highest value after January 2024. The historical data comes from billions of measurements, which were collected by satellites, ships, planes and weather stations worldwide, such as the Display .

Special attention is paid to the period of the past twelve months, which shows a global temperature average of around 1.61 degrees above the estimated range from 1850 to 1900. January 2025 marks the 18th month in a 19-month period in which the temperatures were 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial level. Nevertheless, it is said that the 1.5-degree goal of the Paris climate agreement has not yet been missed, since a longer observation period is required to determine this. These climate developments clearly show the urgent need for global effort to combat climate change, as the Kleine Zeitung reports.